Posts tagged Training

Video recap of 2023

January 25, 2024 Written by John Eisenhard

As mentioned in an earlier post here, 2023 was quite a year for Mt. Penn Fire Company. One of our members gathered up lots of picture and videos and put them together in a video recap of the year. So here you go:

CONGRATS!

May 11, 2022 Written by John Eisenhard

The Mt. Penn Fire Company wishes to congratulate FF Tim Eisenhard on the recent successful completion of his PA EMT certification as well as passing his NREMT testing. He has been with the department over 10 years, starting as a junior firefighter and working up to becoming certified as Firefighter 1 and Vehicle Rescue Tech since then. Thi [...]

Tuesday training

February 24, 2021 Written by John Eisenhard

This past Tuesday Ladder 1 & Engine 1 joined Exeter Township(Co25), Birdsboro(Co7) and Keystone(Co16) for training in an acquired structure at the old Giant Food store along Perkiomen Ave. Crews practiced hoseline advancement, aerial and ground ladders and building searches under simulated fire conditions in the front part of this large [...]

Building Search Training

November 8, 2018 Written by John Eisenhard

This past Tuesday we took a little road trip to an acquired structure to do some training on building searches. A smoke machine was used to produce a zero visibility environment. Crews first searched for the victim in the traditional way of following a wall and then sweeping the room with a tool. They averaged 10-14 minutes to complete th [...]

Time for…………&...

August 23, 2018 Written by John Eisenhard

WOW! What happened to summer? It seems like just a few minutes ago the kids couldn’t wait for the end of the school year and here it is, time to go back. The Antietam School District has scheduled the start of the new year for Tuesday, August 28th. The crew at Mt. Penn has been kept busy over the summer with all sorts of things lik [...]

Springtime is not always sweet

May 9, 2018 Written by John Eisenhard

May 8th proved to be a beautiful but busy day at Mt. Penn. Just before 6a.m. the Ladder was dispatched to assist Amity (Co’s 49 & 6) with a reported structure fire at 551 Old Swede Rd. Units were held at station and then recalled when it was again found out that the venting from the stack was just was normal operating conditions at [...]

Tuesday is Variety Day-Part IV

February 14, 2018 Written by John Eisenhard

Well the apparent Terrible Tuesday curse continues for the 4th week in a row at Mt. Penn with the crews logging 5 runs, 4 of them between 5:20p.m. and 9:00p.m. The start was early, just after midnight with the ladder being dispatched to assist Gibralter(Co 23) on a reported structure fire at 103 Proudfoot Dr. Units were quickly recalled when [...]

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

December 30, 2017 Written by John Eisenhard

We are in the final days of 2017 and 2018 is right around the corner. It’s been another busy year here at Mt. Penn with our new rescue being placed in service, new members and a new high total of calls. Members have kept busy with training classes, station duties, equipment testing and taking care of all those calls. As we move into 2 [...]

Training and tour

May 25, 2017 Written by John Eisenhard

On a recent Tuesday night, the Mt. Penn crew joined up with the crew from Exeter Twp. to take a tour of the new Acrylabs production facility on Prospect St. in St. Lawrence Boro. The facility manufactures a unique roof coating system that can be applied over just about any type of existing roof surface and is renewable which means less debri [...]

Tuesday Training

May 10, 2017 Written by John Eisenhard

On Tuesday the 9th we changed it up a bit and the crew went to the Berks County Fire Training Center to practice hoseline advancement. The engine was set up at the hydrant and the crew was divided into engine and truck company, alternating for each evolution. Those assigned engine were given a problem such as basement fire, 3rd floor fire e [...]

Summary of department activity

2024
Month	Fire Calls	Total
January	65	65Prior Year (2023) Stats January - 49 \| 49 16 more call(s) this year.
February	45	45Prior Year (2023) Stats February - 41 \| 41 4 more call(s) this year.
March	65	65Prior Year (2023) Stats March - 66 \| 66 1 less call(s) this year.
April	53	53Prior Year (2023) Stats April - 66 \| 66 13 less call(s) this year.
May	0	0
June	0	0
July	0	0
August	0	0
September	0	0
October	0	0
November	0	0
December	0	0
Totals	228	228

Working Fires	9

Previous Years

2023					727
2022					683
2021					208
2020					582