As crews were wrapping up from a fire earlier in the evening of Wednesday April 23, a call from a citizen reporting a possible gas odor in the residence in the 2100 block of Reading Ave in the West Wyomissing section of Spring Twp resulted in a haz mat assignment being dispatched.

TSFR Rescue Engine 85 responded from Princeton Ave and Rescue 85 responded from station. Also responding were mutual ... (Full Story & Photos)

Shortly after 7 PM on Wednesday evening April 23, A passerby contacted Berks County 911 and reported black smoke issuing from a small commercial occupancy at the intersection of Shillington Rd and Princeton Av in the Lincoln Park section of Spring Township. Accordingly, TSFR, along with our mutual aid partners from Western Berks, Wyomissing, Cumru Twp, Shillington, Kenhorst, Mohnton, West Reading ... (Full Story & Photos)

TSFR personnel along with our neighbors from Western Berks and Cumru Twp Fire Depts. recently completed a 12 hour course on elevator rescue presented by RFD Fire Marshal Jeremy Searfoss. The class consisted of both lecture and field work on working elevators. Skills and evolutions covered included accessing hoistways thru the landing doors, opening the car doors on disabled elevators, accessing ... (Full Story & Photos)

Pennsylvania State Police Fire Marshal, Trooper Herb will be presenting a Fire & Arson awareness for the community. This is a FREE event! This event will be held at our station at 2301 Monroe Avenue.

See the attached flyer for details! ... (Full Story & Photos)

On Tuesday April 29th, C Platoon Technician Gary Riegel will be working his final shift for the Township of Spring Fire Rescue!

Gary started firefighting as a volunteer with the West Wyomissing Fire Company in 1979. Gary was later hired by the West Wyomissing Fire Company as a paid driver in 1989. In 2002 the Township of Spring Fire Rescue Services was formed and Gary became a Career Firefighter ... (Full Story & Photos)

On Monday night March 24, members practiced self-rescue from an interior space by way of wall breaching. The drill was conducted using a former press box at the Townships' Red Caboose Park softball field, which is scheduled for demolition.

Wall breaching is one of those "last resort" evolutions which can be employed when all other ways into or out of an enclosed space such as a room or small building ... (Full Story & Photos)

On Saturday afternoon March 22, an exterior fire at grade level of a 6-story motel in Wyomissing Boro resulted in a situation that required a 2-alarm response to handle. A possible mulch fire caused penetration of a false facade of a vertical column in the rear of the structure. This permitted smoke to penetrate to the interior of the building.

The initial call was for an automatic fire alarm at ... (Full Story & Photos)

At approximately 2100 hours on Monday night March 17, TSFRS was alerted as part of a structure fire assignment to assist the Wyomissing Fire Dept with a report of smoke in the apartment on Gaelsong Drive in the Highlands campus off Cambridge Avenue. While enroute, County Communications advised that the call was for a fire alarm activation with a smoke condition which was possibly caused by a coffee ... (Full Story & Photos)