Posts tagged 3 Alarm

A little bit of everything

May 4, 2018 Written by John Eisenhard

Thursday turned out to be a busy day at Mt. Penn. About 11:30 we were dispatched to assist Lower Alsace(Co4) with a reported brush fire across from the old caretakers house at Antietam Lake. Arriving personnel found an area of about 75×75 feet burning slowly just off the fire trail. A line was raked around the fire until brush units [...]

3rd Alarm in Mt. Penn

April 6, 2018 Written by John Eisenhard

On April 6 shortly after 5a.m. Mt. Penn was dispatched along with Lower Alsace (Co4), Exeter (Co25), Birdsboro(Co7), Reading City and Oley (Co5) for a reported structure fire in the 1900 block of Woodvale Ave. As crews were responding Deputy 4-1(Mountz) arrived and reported a working fire with fire through the roof of 1951 Woodvale. All oc [...]

West Reading Structure Fire

March 11, 2018 Written by John Eisenhard

On March 11 just after 3a.m. Mt. Penn was dispatched as an additional RIT company on the 2nd alarm to the 600 block of Penn Avenue in West Reading at Go Fish. The originally dispatched units had encountered heavy smoke in the block and a working fire towards the rear of the structure on their arrival at this large building that also houses t [...]

Warehouse burns in Bern Township

October 24, 2017 Written by John Eisenhard

On October 22 shortly after 9p.m. Mt. Penn was special called as the 5th due RIT company to assist Greenfields (Co55) with a 2 alarm structure fire at 1947 Bernville Rd-Evans Food Distributors in Bern Township. This call was originally dispatched as an Automatic Fire Alarm(AFA) shortly before 7:30p.m. and when the first crews arrived they fo [...]

Summer day sizzling!

June 23, 2017 Written by John Eisenhard

On June 22 at 5p.m. E1 was dispatched along with Exeter (Co25) to the rear of 2980 St. Lawrence Ave. in St. Lawrence for a trash fire near a pole. Arriving units found a couch and other debris on fire which was quickly knocked down with a single line. Units were able to clear less than 20 minutes later. Courtesy of Terrie Bortz Just [...]

Jump start to April

April 3, 2017 Written by John Eisenhard

On April 2 at 9:45a.m. the engine was dispatched to assist the City of Reading on a second alarm structure fire in the 200 block of S. 11th St., Box 602. Arriving units had a 4 story vacant warehouse at 213 S. 11th St. with heavy fire on the top floor of the former Letisse Handbags/L&B Metals building. Command reported exterior operation [...]

Ladder 1 assists City of Reading

October 23, 2015 Written by John Eisenhard

On October 22, just before 4a.m. L1 was requested on the 3rd alarm to cover for L10 to Box 9-03 at 645 N 9th. St for a working fire involving multiple residences. City crews were confronted with heavy fire in the rear of the structures on their arrival with significant extension. They also removed a semi responsive individual from one of t [...]

Engine & Ladder assist City of R...

May 5, 2015 Written by John Eisenhard

On May 5 at 7:32am E1 was dispatched to 900 block of East Laurel St. in the City of Reading along with an engine from Exeter Twp (Co 25) to assist on a 2nd alarm structure fire. At 7:55am command struck at 3rd alarm which brought reserve apparatus from the city along with L1 to the scene. Spring Twp (Co 85) was special called to provide a [...]

Crews called to assist Reading Fire o...

January 15, 2015 Written by admin

On January 14, 2015 @ 2119 the City of Reading Fire Department responds to a structure fire in the 700 block of Chestnut St. City crews encountered a large volume of fire on the 1st and 2nd floors of the dwelling with a report of an occupant unaccounted for. At 2127 Reading Deputy Chief Mogel requested a 2nd alarm due to deteriorating condit [...]

Crews respond to City on 3 Alarm Fire...

January 3, 2015 Written by admin

Crews assist City of Reading December 28, 2014 @ 2125 hours, Engine 1 and Ladder 1 respond to the City of Reading to assist on a 3 alarm double fatality fire in the 500 block of Spruce St. Ladder 1 crews were sent to assist Reading Car 6 with roof operation while the Engine 1 crew was sent to assist Reading Car 9 with interior operations.

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	36	36Prior Year (2023) Stats April - 66 \| 66 30 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	211	211

Working Fires	8

2023					727
2022					683
2021					208
2020					582