9/8/2024 STRUCTURAL COLLAPSE OPS CLASS, READING AVENUE STATION, BAF&R
BAF&R hosted a Structural Collapse OPS class and the second day of the training was held today Sunday September 8, 2024. Attendees were from numerous Fire Companies in Berks County including BAF&R, Eastern Berks, Earl, Western Berks and Wyomissing. Attendees worked with Struts and Rakers and learned how to build shoring with lumber. Great class...
Read More9/4/2024 VEHICLE CRASH WITH CONFINEMENT, CAR VS DUMP TRUCK, RT 100 NORTH AT COUNTY LINE ROAD, COLEBROOKDALE
Company 95 was dispatched to Rt 100 just north of County Line Road at 1155 hours for a car vs a dump truck with entrapment. On location crews determined that there was no entrapment just confinement with no injuries. Crews were able to get the driver out of the vehicle using the passenger door and...
Read More8/31/2024 STRUCTURE FIRE, MOBILE HOME TRAILER, 315 N. SUNRISE LANE, DOUGLASS
Company 95 was dispatched to 315 North Sunrise Lane at 1024 hours for a report that a mobile home trailer was on fire. On arrival crews found the trailer to be fully involved and threatening an occupied mobile home and other out buildings. Crews contained the fire to the original trailer and protected the surrounding...
Read More8/27/2024 RESCUE FROM VEHICLE DOWN EMBANKMENT, 2289 FARMINGTON AVENUE, DOUGLASS
Company 95 was dispatched at 1240 hours for an elderly male in his vehicle down an embankment along the driveway at 2289 Farmington Avenue. He apparently was trying to back up to allow another vehicle to exit and went over the embankment. The vehicle was hanging just above a steep drop being held only by...
Read More8/26/2024, VEHICLE CRASH WITH VEHICLE INTO STRUCTURE, SHANESVILLE ORCHARD, RT 73, EARL
08/26/2024 – At 1513 hours Rescue 95 was dispatched on automatic mutual aid with the Earl Township Fire Company (Station 19) to assist with a motor vehicle accident with injuries and entrapment in the 1700 block of West Philadelphia Ave. Callers reported a vehicle struck a retail store and a male was entrapped in the...
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