On Monday, October 25th, members from Local 1803 visited the offices of Breast Cancer Support Services of Berks. Local 1803 raised money this year through the sale of Breast Cancer Awareness T-Shirts....
Please consider purchasing 2021 Reading Fire Department Toy Drive apparel to help us get toys for local kids in need this Christmas. We appreciate you helping us in this great cause! Link posted below...
Hired on February 1st of 1995, Judd Weber began his firefighting career on the C-Platoon where he was assigned as a jumper after graduating the fire academy. Firefighter Weber remained a jumper on C-s...
Congratulations to the 2021 recruit class on their graduation of the fire academy. The recruit class has finished 6 months of strenuous training led by Lieutenant Batz and now will be assigned to stre...
1243 hours / 1838 North 5th Street, J & M Auto Technology / Box 0703 / B platoonCompanies dispatched for smoke showing from a auto garage. Engine 3 arrived at a 1 story mechanics garage with smoke showing from the bays.
0824 hours / 98 West Neversink Rd / A platoonExeter Fire Requesting a 2nd alarm for a house fire on an unplowed hillside. Engine 5 & Engine 3 responded to assist and remained on scene for over an hour.
0836 hours / 800 South Street, Evergreen Community Power Plant / A platoon/D platoonCompanies dispatched for a fire in the fuel silo of the a high efficiency wood-burning power plant. Firefighters arrived with a smoldering fire within a large wood chip silo.
1529 hours / 1319 Kenny Street / B platoonCompanies dispatched for smoking coming from the dwelling. Chief Born(C5) on scene at a 3 story MOR with smoke showing from the 1st floor. Firefighters stretched a line into the structure and located a kitchen fire in the rear.
1957 hours / 6th & Cherry Streets / Box 0304 / A platoonCompanies dispatched for smoke showing at the Wells Fargo building. Firefighters arrived with smoke coming from several manholes. During the incident several fire & carbon monoxide alarms were transmitted from buildings in the area.
1342 hours / 800 block of North 8th Street / D platoonCompanies dispatched for a vehicle accident. Engine 9 arrived with a 2 vehicle accident with one rolled on its side. Crews treated several occupants and requested additional EMS units.
B platoon units were sent to CH Briggs, 2047 Kutztown Road for a report of an unconscious man who was working on a roof. Firefighters arrived and worked to get him down via Tower 1's aerial platform.
1400 hours / 1415 Perkiomen Avenue / Box 0602 / D platoonCompanies dispatched for smoke coming from a home on Perkiomen Avenue. Chief Moyer(C9) & Engine 1 arrived at a 3 story semi-detached with smoke showing from a porch roof.
1218 hours / Schuylkill River / A platoonThe Fire Department was requested to assist a local search & rescue group in the disappearance of a man from Kenhorst. On Tuesday the Reading Police reported a man missing after leaving a tavern on Morgantown Road.
0452 hours / 333 North 13th Street / Box 0104 / D platoonCompanies dispatched for an outlet on fire in a bedroom. Engine 9 arrived at a 2½ story MOR with nothing showing. Firefighters found a fire in a 3rd floor bedroom and began a hose stretch.
0058 hours / Lancaster Ave & Angelica Street / D platoonMultiple calls reporting a serious accident with people unconscious. Engine 5 o/s with a 2 vehicle accident with occupants trapped, additional EMS units requested.
1851 hours / 609 Summit Avenue / Box 0402 / D platoonNumerous calls received reporting a house on fire. Engine 5 arrived at 2 story SFD with fire showing. Chief Mogel (C2) reporting exterior fire with extension into the dwelling.
0436 hours / 300 Lackawanna Street, Jamestown Village Apartments / Box 0702 / D platoonEngine 7 & Ladder 3 dispatched for a fire alarm at building 16. Engine 7 arriving at a 3 story garden apartment building with people evacuating.
1243 hours / 637 Birch Street / Box 0903 / B platoonThe first alarm was transmitted for multiple calls reporting fire from the 3rd floor. Car 5 (Born) reported a thermal column visible several blocks out.
0407 hours / 1035 North 10th Street (rear) / Box 0902 / D platoonFirefighters at Engine 9 & Ladder 3's quarters were awoken by loud banging, quickly followed by a box alarm for the 1000 block of North 10th Street.
0353 hours / 205 North 9th Street / Box 0103 / A platoonCompanies dispatched to 9th & Walnut Streets for smoke coming from a building. Engine 1 arrived at 205 North 9th with smoke showing from the rear of a 3 story MOR.
1440 hours / 1707 Haak Street / Box 0601 / D platoonCompanies dispatched for a working house fire with entrapment. Units advised there was a handicapped person in a second floor bedroom. Chief Moyer(C9) o/s with a 2½ story EOR with fire showing from the second floor.
1509 hours / 1408 Perkiomen Avenue / B platoonCompanies dispatched to a car accident involving a structure. Engine 1 in the area confirming a vehicle into a front porch. Firefighters assisted in treatment of the driver of the vehicle who was transported to Reading Hospital.
1238 hours / 1211 North 10th Street / Box 0902 / B platoonCompanies dispatched for a fire in dwelling with children trapped. Chief Born(C5) requesting an additional medic unit due to the entrapment report.
2153 hours / 527, 529, 535 Birch Street / Box 0101 / A platoonReading Police Officers reporting a fire in the 500 block of Birch Street along with additional 911 calls reporting front of a home involved in fire.