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3/27/2023 JOINT TRAINING 95, 97 & 19 HOSE LINE ADVANCEMENT BALLY BOROUGH

The Boyertown Area Joint Training Committee set up a Hose Line Advancement training hosted by Eastern Berks Fire & Rescue at a training house in Bally Borough. Company 95, Company 19 and Company 97 set up several evolutions on different scenarios where crews had 7 minutes to complete the detail in a smoke filled environment.

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3/24/2023, MUTUAL AID, EXPLOSION PALMER CANDY, 77 S 2ND AVENUE, WEST READING BOROUGH, BERKS CO.

Collapse 95 was requested at 1712 hours by West Reading Fire Command to assist with Structure evaluations and search and rescue operations at the Palmer Candy Factory after an explosion leveled a large portion of the factory and a neighboring apartment building. Crews arrived and worked with Command to inspect the surrounding damaged buildings and

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3/21/2023 VEHICLE CRASH WITH INJURIES & CONFINEMENT, FANCY HILL ROAD & BOYERTOWN PIKE, EARL

Company 95 was dispatched to the intersection of Boyertown Pike and Fancy Hill Road to assist Earl Fire Company with a reported crash with injuries and entrapment at 0925 hours. Crews arrived on scene and found the operator of the blue car was injured and the doors on that side of the vehicle were smashed

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3/7/2023 AMERICAN RED CROSS, BATTLE OF THE BADGES, FRIENDSHIP HOOK & LADDER, BOYERTOWN

In late January on a Crash Scene Sergeant Matthew Ellis asked Fire Commissioner Jeffrey Bealer if the Fire Company would be interested in a Battle of the Badges Blood Drive to be held on March 7th. FC Bealer immediately said we are in and plans moved on from there. SGT Ellis was leading the event

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3/6/2023 1st BOYERTOWN AREA REGIONAL JOINT TRAINING, READING AVENUE STATION BAF&R

The Boyertown Area Regional Joint Training Committee kicked off the first Monthly Tri-Company joint training Monday March 6, 2023 at BAF&R’s Reading Avenue Station. Officers and Members of Earl Township Fire Co., Eastern Berks Fire & Rescue and Boyertown Area Fire & Rescue put together a Committee to make the three Companies more cohesive than

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3/5/2023 TWO VEHICLE CRASH 2ND STREET & MADISON STREET BOYERTOWN

Company 95 was dispatched to the intersection of 2nd Street & Madison Street for a reported crash unknown injuries at 0945 hours. Police and Boyertown Ambulance reported on location no injuries, fluids and debris on the roadway. Crews stabilized the vehicle and cleaned up fluids and debris and assisted Faust Towing with removing both vehicles.

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