Recently retired Firefighters Relief Association President Neil Strause was presented with a plaque at the January meeting on Monday night January 23 to commemorate his many years of service to the Association and the Department. Neil served diligently as President from 2005 to 2022. Prior to that, Neil also served as the last chief of the Vinemont Fire Co until the Township merger, and as a Deputy ... (Full Story & Photos)

On Wednesday morning January 18, TSFR Rescue 85, Wyo FD Ladder 79 and Western Berks EMS Medic 6512 were dispatched for a motor vehicle crash, with entrapment at a restaurant located in northern Spring Township. As companies went responding Communications reported one vehicle into the building with one occupant pinned in the vehicle. Additional calls were received reporting an additional occupant trapped ... (Full Story & Photos)

TSFR members along with personnel from Western Berks and Kenhorst FDs attended a Job Fair sponsored by the Wilson School District on Tuesday January 10 in the Plex Field House at Alvernia University. Personnel were on hand to inform young people about the many opportunities available to them in firefighting (both career and volunteer) and in higher education such as fire science and fire protection ... (Full Story & Photos)

The Shillington Fire Co took us up on an offer to join us for a Monday night drill on Jan 9. Rescue 36 and 6 members including Chief Knouse participated in a confined space rescue drill featuring long line supplied air respirator use.

The drill was coordinated by Capt. Bingaman and featured a review of our respirators and air supply, plus execution of a simulated rescue evolution. We also reviewed ... (Full Story & Photos)

A report of black smoke from a chimney resulted in a structure fire assignment being dispatched to a home on Mayfair Drive in the Wyomissing Hills section of Wyomissing Boro on Friday evening Jan. 6. TSFR and Wyo FD responded along with our mutual aid partners. Ladder 79 arrived on location and reported nothing evident and began to investigate. Deputy 85 arrived and assumed command while Engine ... (Full Story & Photos)

The Christmas holiday season was a busy one for local firefighters. The unprecedented low single digit temperatures with sub zero windchills resulted in multiple calls for fire alarms, broken pipes and flooded conditions, which were added to the usual load of emergency responses. Between TSFR and Wyo FD, there were 55 responses in the four-day holiday weekend of 12/23 ,24, 25, and 26, which included ... (Full Story & Photos)

In the afternoon of Sunday December 11 TSFR and Wyo FD along with our mutual aid partners were dispatched for a possible structure fire in the 2000 block of Reading Ave in the West Wyomissing section of Spring Twp. Intial indications were for an oven fire with smoke in the dwelling.

E85, L79 and Chief 85 arrived on scene to find a single-story dwelling with light smoke visible inside. E85s crew ... (Full Story & Photos)

The officers and members of the Township of Spring Fire Rescue express our sincerest condolences to the families of New Tripoli Fire Company volunteer Asst Chief Zachary Paris and Firefighter Marvin Gruber who died in the line of duty while fighting a fire in West Penn Township Schuylkill County early Wednesday morning December 7. Our deepest thoughts also go out to the brothers and sisters with ... (Full Story & Photos)