Latest News from Boyertown Area Fire & Rescue
9/4/2024 VEHICLE CRASH WITH CONFINEMENT, CAR VS DUMP TRUCK, RT 100 NORTH AT COUNTY LINE ROAD, COLEBROOKDALE
September 8, 2024
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...
Read More8/31/2024 STRUCTURE FIRE, MOBILE HOME TRAILER, 315 N. SUNRISE LANE, DOUGLASS
August 31, 2024
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...
Read More8/27/2024 RESCUE FROM VEHICLE DOWN EMBANKMENT, 2289 FARMINGTON AVENUE, DOUGLASS
August 27, 2024
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...
Read More8/26/2024, VEHICLE CRASH WITH VEHICLE INTO STRUCTURE, SHANESVILLE ORCHARD, RT 73, EARL
August 27, 2024
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...
Read More8/18/2024 JOINT TRAINING, FLASHOVER TRAINING, EARL, BOYERTOWN, EASTERN BERKS & GILBERTSVILLE, EASTERN BERKS STATION
August 18, 2024
Joint Training this weekend at Eastern Berks Fire Company new Station with BAF&R, Earl Township Fire, Gilbertsville Fire and Eastern Berks Fire participating. Crews went into the simulator and experienced a flashover with live fire. Great training! “>...
Read More8/7/2024 VEHICLE ROLLOVER, 2300 BLOCK OF FARMINGTON AVENUE, DOUGLASS
August 8, 2024
Company 95 was dispatched to a vehicle rollover on Ben Franklin Highway in Douglass Township and were recalled enroute. Engine 95-1 was turning around at Gift when they observed traffic stopped on Farmington Avenue and saw a vehicle on it’s side. They blocked the roadway and checked for injuries and...
Read More8/3/2024, MUTUAL AID AMITY TOWNSHIP, STRUCTURAL COLLAPSE INVESTIGATION, 410 OLD AIRPORT ROAD, AMITY
August 3, 2024
Company 95 was requested to investigate the stability of a structure that was struck by a vehicle that fled the scene. Deputy Wary and FC Bealer arrived on scene and inspected the damage inside and outside of the structure. Three studs as well as the three corner studs were broken...
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