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Red Cross Sound the Alarm events planned for Reading and Schuylkill County

The Red Cross is seeking volunteers for its annual Sound the Alarm events in which community partners go door to door handing out fire prevention literature and installing free smoke alarms to vulnerable households.

West Reading, Berks County community comes together one year after RM Palmer chocolate factory explosion

Two-alarm fire on South 9th Street Reading inside apartment building

Crews rushed to the scene of that two-alarm fire Friday afternoon.

'I don't think anything prepares you for something of that magnitude': Firefighter recalls Palmer explosion

Second Deputy Fire Chief Thomas Rehr was nearing the end of his shift on that fateful day last March when an explosion rocked R.M. Palmer Company.

Reading council considering motion to boost number of sworn city firefighters

Council recently introduced an ordinance to increase the number of sworn personnel in the fire department from 138 to 144.