Page 26, Fire News, March/April 2022
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No, the Other Kind of Bank
2 Dead in 4 Vehicle Berks County MVA
At 0129 on December 28, 2021, Tanker 66, Air 66, Field 66 and an all-volunteer crew from Perkiomen Township Fire Company responded to the Perkiomen Creek bank in the 600 block of Gravel Pike (Route 29) in the township for a report of a vehicle in the creek. The vehicle was on the bank of the creek and a technical rescue was performed up the embankment. Thanks to the many mutual aid partners who were also dispatched including Skippack Fire Company and marine units from Collegeville Fire Company, Upper Salford Volunteer Fire Company and Jefferson Fire Company No. 1. Station 66 volunteers were in service for about two hours. - Fire News photo by Ted Hodgins
On December 15, 2021, units operated at a multi-vehicle MVA with entrapment in Berks County on Interstate 78 near the Route 61 interchange. Two people were killed in the crash which involved four vehicles. The driver of an empty school bus did not see traffic stopped in a construction zone and hit a car, causing it to become lodged beneath the bus, the Pennsylvania State Police said. The bus then hit another car, pushing it into a tractor-trailer, police said. Units from Hamburg, Shoemakersville, Shartlesville, Schuylkill, Orwisburg, Schuylkill Valley, Mulhenburg and Western Berks operated for several hours. - Fire News photo by Jarrod Emes, Chief 61
