We average between 250 and 275 Emergency Calls a year, mostly Automatic Fire Alarms and Vehicle Accidents. Our primary response area includes residential properties, businesses such as Arrow International, Direct Link Technologies, Classic Harley Davidson and many others. We also protect the Reading Regional Airport, Berks County Prison, the County Nursing Home and the Bern Township portions of Blue Marsh Lake. The Saint Joseph Medical Center, which opened in November of 2006 now presents our volunteers with additional challenges. Two major highways run through our area; Pa Route 183 and US Route 222. We receive and provide Mutual Aid assitance to Mount Pleasant, West Reading, Leesport, Lower Heidelberg, the Township of Spring, Goodwill of Hyde Park and Temple Fire Companies on a regular basis. We also respond as part of the Zone 2 Tanker Task Force where we perform tanker fill site duties. Occasionally, we are dispatched into the City of Reading to assist on multi-alarm fires.

We contend with the same challenges as many other volunteer fire companies in our area - volunteer retention and recruitment problems as well as insufficient funding. We are trying to address some of these challenges by investigating the formation of a partnership with the Mount Pleasant Fire Company in Penn Township.