On Monday night July13, just as TSFR Engine 85 was wrapping up another call in the Township, a structure fire dispatch was transmitted for an office building in the 1200 block of Broadcasting Road in the Spring Ridge Corporate Center in Spring Township . TSFRS along with our mutual aid partners from Wyomissing (Ladder 79), Western Berks FD (Ladder 18),West Reading (Engine 64), Kenhorst (Engine 69-1), ... (Full Story & Photos)

A reported explosion and fire at a PPL substation on Yerger Blvd in the North Whitfield section of Spring Township occurred on Monday evening July 13. County Communications advised that a transformer exploded, was smoking and arcing and that power was out in the area. Further confirmation of fire in the substation yard was provided by a Spring Twp PD officer on location. The Comm Center also advised ... (Full Story & Photos)

TSFRS Rescue 85 and Fire Police, along with Wyomissing FD Ladder 79 , Western Berks FD E18-2 and Western Berks EMS Medic 6511, were dispatched to the corner of Iroquois Avenue and Nichole Way in Spring Twp for a vehicle crash on Saturday evening July 11. The incident was reported to be with injuries and entrapment. Upon arrival, R85s crew located one patient not entrapped but with a pole sheared ... (Full Story & Photos)

On the morning of July 11, TSFRS Engine 85 was dispatched to a nursing facility on Reading Avenue in West Reading to assist Station 64 on a fire alarm assignment that was upgraded to a structure fire almost immediately. E85 arrived and assumed first due engine responsibilities, connected to the sprinkler/standpipe the fire department connection and established their own water supply. The crew then ... (Full Story & Photos)

Just after sunup on Friday morning July 10, TSFRS Engine 85 and Fire Police responded to Rte. 422 eastbound just prior to the North Wyomissing blvd. exit in Wyomissing Boro on a mutual aid response for a reported tractor trailer fire. PA State Police were on location reporting a brake fire on a semi-trailer.

Engine 85 arrived on location and originally set up for blocking behind first due Ladder ... (Full Story & Photos)

The Summer Adventure Camp located at the Body Zone Sports Complex on Paper Mill Road in Spring Township provides a day camp for kids that includes swimming, ice skating, sports on giant fields, arts and crafts and special Monday Art Classes. They also have outdoor programs like a camp garden project, weekly themed activities and rotating attractions.

One of those outdoor attractions was held on ... (Full Story & Photos)

This page frequently highlights and memorializes our fire service brothers and sisters who have passed away, and generally only when it happens in the line of duty. Therefore, a lot of people may not understand that a popular soap opera star, who also appeared in a number of other TV shows and movies, could be one of the most respected if not beloved figures in the fire and EMS worlds. However, ... (Full Story & Photos)

TSFRS Rescue 85 and Fire Police responded to assist West Reading FD Company 64, Western Berks EMS and Reading FD Rescue 1 on Rte. 422 at the Penn Street Bridge in West Reading Boro in the early evening of Monday July 6 for a vehicle crash reported to be with entrapment. While R85 was enroute, Western Berks EMS Medic 6521 arrived and confirmed injuries with heavy entrapment.

Once on location, crews ... (Full Story & Photos)