12/01/09 - Longswamp Township (just outside Topton) ~ 1830 hrs. Fleetwood was dispatched to assist Topton (Company 21) on a 4 alarm working structure fire at a sawmill. Fleetwood assisted with fire suppression and also was a primary pumper at a fill site. Fleetwood was impressed with Chief 21’s command and first due apparatus placement on this multi-alarm fire. Nice job!
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12/12/09 Fleetwood Borough, MVA with entrapment Main and Walnut Sts. Fleetwood rescue and EMS were dispatched ~ 0220 hrs to this challenging rescue. Fire officers arrived to find a male victim pinned in the wreckage with part of the wood pool deck protruding through the windshield. Rescuers used the Hurst Jaws of Life to remove the roof of the vehicle, then used a Hurst hydraulic ram to raise the deck enough to free the victim. Fleetwood Fire Co. paramedics treated and stabilized the victim and transported to Reading hospital.
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11/23/09 @ ~ 030 hrs, Topton Borough. Fleetwood was dispatched to assist Topton on this 3 alarm structure fire on Callowhill St. in Topton Borough. The intensity of the blaze melted the siding on the structure directly across the alley. No injuries were reported. Fleetwood was released at approx. 0500 hrs
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1/29/10 ~ 0700 hrs: Fleetwood Fire Co. Foam trailer was dispatched to Muhlenburg Township, on the on-ramp to Rt 61N from Rt. 222N for a gasoline tanker fire. First arriving units found a fully involved cab fire that was impinging on the tanker section. Crews were able to extinguish the fire before the tanker section was compromised. Fleetwood stayed on location until approx. 1300 hrs until the gasoline was safely off-loaded.
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Structure fire 2/12/10 near Rt 737 in Greenwich Township, Berks County. Multi alarm fire (not in Co. 45’s typical mutual aid area, but our photographer was in the area and took these shots) . Kutztown Chief 46 was command, and requested tankers from multiple companies to control this difficult fire. Fleetwood’s fire police were dispatched to control traffic at 737 and 222.
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4/04/10 Possible Structure Fire - Park Rd, Richmond Twp. Station 45 was dispatched to assist Co. 32 at a possible structure fire Easter morning at a single family residence. Arriving units discovered and extinguished a trash can in the residence, and fire personnel used smoke ejectors to vent the structure.
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4/09/10 @ 0700 Rescue 45 and 10 members from Fleetwood responded to assist Co. 12
Blandon on an MVA with multiple pts. on SR 222 in Maidencreek Township. A Silver
Ford Expedition and a Tractor trailer collided near Berks Memorial Gardens. Fleetwood
EMS confirmed one class 5 pt. Blandon EMS transported the Trailer driver with minor
injuries. Rescue 45 was on scene for 2 hours during the Police investigation and
subsequent Pt removal. SR 222 was shut down for 4 hours after the incident. Traffic
around the Fleetwood, Maidencreek area was heavily backed up. A minor MVA occurred
in Fleetwood Borough during the heavy traffic and Fleetwood Fire also responded to
a CMA alarm on Dogwood drive during the morning. A thank you to Co. 21 Topton who
assisted us on that call. ( Photos and write-up by Chief 45).
4/13/10 ~ 0630 hrs Rescue 45 with Squad 45 along with two MICU’s responded to assist Co. 12 (Blandon) on an MVA with multiple pts. on SR 222 in Maidencreek Township. This call was almost a duplicate of the call below in thjat it happened only 4 days later, time of day , type of accident , and location - only a few hundred feet from the previous accident. Two patients were transported to area hospitals.
4/22/10 ~ 0630 hrs Rescue 45 with Squad 45 along with Medic 535 responded to assist Co. 34 (Ruscumbmanor) on an MVA involving a motorcycle vs, truck. One patient was transported to the hospital.
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5/18/10 Busy morning for Fleetwood area rescuers included impalement crash:
Three rescue companies worked for about an hour to free a driver from his tractor
trailer rig Tuesday morning along State route 222. 
Traffic was snarled just before
0400 am. First arriving officers from Fleetwood, Walnuttown, and Virginville found
a mini van heavily damaged with it's occupant out of the vehicle, and a tractor trailer
wrapped in chain link fence in front of Penn Detroit Diesel. Once the chain link
fence was cut away and access to the driver was made, rescuers were faced with yet
another issue, the driver was impaled through the windshield with a pipe from the
chain link fence. Within another 45 minutes, Fleetwood Paramedic Josh High stabilized
the driver enough so that rescuers were able to make three cuts on the pipe to get
it short enough so the driver could be removed from the truck. "The driver was able
to talk to rescuers during the one hour extrication and was almost able to remove
himself from the truck once the pipe was cut" said John Manmiller Chief from Fleetwood.
The 12 inches of pipe that remained was wrapped and secured so movement was kept
to a minimum and further injury was avoided. The driver was transported to the trauma
team at the Reading Hospital.
Traffic was heavy during the am rush to area schools and to East Penn Manufacturing.
Fleetwood Borough was bumper to bumper as well as all the side roads throughout the
day. Penn Dot and Met-Ed relieved Fire Police at main intersections with arrow 
signs
and personnel to direct traffic. Power was out along 222 from Richmond to Maidencreek
townships.
At 0730 am the same companies were dispatched to another accident on SR-662 and Eagle Rd in Richmond township. Fleetwood EMS transported 2 patients from that incident. Then at ~ 2100 hrs, Fleetwood assisted Lyons with a two vehicle MVA. The following day Fleetwood assisted Ruscombmanor at a possible structure fire on 662. Arriving units extinguished a stove fire and used smoke ejectors to ventilate the structure.
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7/28/10 Fleetwood Dispatched to possible explosion in Oley
Fleetwood Fire Co. Was dispatched to a possible explosion on July 28, 2010 in Oley Twp at the Weis market. Crews arrived to find smoke in the mechanical room. The root cause appeared to be a malfunctioning air conditioner and crews assisted multiple mutual aid companies in ventilating the structure.
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8/10/10 Fleetwood Fire Co. participated in a training exercise with Fleetwood PD and other local police departments. Thanks to Fleetwood PD for organizing this event and inviting us to participate. Then, on 8/12/10 Fleetwood was dispatched to assist company 35 and Fleetwood EMS on a motorcycle MVA in Rockland Twp. Crews found a male with severe leg injuries and assisted EMS with first aid and patient packaging.
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8/18/10: Two crashes keep area rescue companies busy:
Early in the morning of Aug 18th, Fleetwood fire company was dispatched to assist
EMS and company 35 and company 32 with a rollover accident on Park Rd near Weaver's
Hardware. Arriving units found a car had lost control and entered a corn 
field, rolling
over several times before coming to rest a good distance inside the field. All three
victims managed to self-extricate themselves and Fleetwood Fire Co. EMT’s assisted
EMS personnel with patient care. Two MICU’s were required to transport the three
victims.
Later that same day, at around 1915 hrs Fleetwood and company 32, were dispatched to Arch and Chestnut Streets in the borough for a two vehicle MVA. Crews found a car vs. a pickup MVA. The force of the impact had spun the car into a yard and into a tree on the property. Crews started first aid on two victims, back-boarded the patients with EMS crews, and remained on scene to clean debris from the scene.
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8/22/10 - At about 0850 hrs Sunday 8/22, Fleetwood Fire and EMS, Walnuttown, and
Virginville were dispatched to a two vehicle crash 
on Rt 222 near Martins Construction,
Richmond Twp. An asst. Chief from nearby Kutztown was on location reporting one
elderly female entrapped after a near head-on collision. On arrival, EMT’s and paramedics
attended to the patients (two from one car plus the one entrapped) as rescue crews
stabilized the car and deployed hydraulic rescue tools to remove the door. A total
of three victims were transported to area hospitals by Fleetwood Fire Co. MICU’s.
(Thanks to company 32 for allowing the photographer to use the top of Rescue 32)
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9/4/10 - Fleetwood was dispatched with Blandon and Walnuttown around 0618 hrs for
a possible structure fire at Zwicky and Sons, along Buena Vista Rd in Maidencreek
Twp. First arriving units reported a working structure fire in an industrial building.
After seeing heavy smoke and fire, multiple alarms were struck including a tanker
task force . Fleetwood assisted with master stream operation, water supply from a
nearby pond, fire suppr
ession , and overhaul . Most units cleared the scene by 1330
hrs.
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