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Lane closed for fire response near Church Hill RdBerks County PA

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PA-100 & Church Hill Rd, Hereford Township, PA 19504

As discussed during the dispatch call, fire and fire police units from Berks County responded to a fire-related incident near the intersection of Route 100 and Church Hill Road in Hereford Township. Crews coordinated lane closures and traffic control around the affected area while utility units and additional apparatus were in route. The scene involved coordination between multiple fire and traffic control personnel to ensure safety during the response.

Audio|Heard on: Berks PA Fire-Talk Group Calls
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01:56
Transcript:
00:00
Fire Police Captain 58 responding.
00:03
Fire Police Captain Lieutenant 58.
00:06
Fire Police Captain, go ahead.
00:10
When you come down the intersection of Host Church and Route 100, stage behind my truck.
00:15
We're going to need to shut down one lane of traffic.
00:18
Ten four.
00:20
Fifty-two responding momentarily.
00:24
For Utility 58 responding.
00:27
You are going around with Berkshire.
00:28
Repeating.
00:31
Berks Utility 58 responding.
00:34
Utility 50, you're now 1503.
00:36
Lieutenant 58 from the assistant.
00:39
Go ahead.
00:40
What are we going to need up here, (name withheld)? I'm sitting down in traffic right now.
00:44
Just a 58R, are you coming down Host Church Road? No, I'm on 100 in traffic right now, just wondering if you need anything else.
00:53
Right now I'm running traffic trying to let the utility get through.
00:56
You're good if you hold it up.
00:58
He's coming down the southbound or the northbound lane right now.
01:01
Oh, oh.
01:04
County 36, tanker 85, tanker 42, recall from 222 prior to Monesill Road.
01:11
There was a deputy five used for available 1605.
01:14
Assistant 58 and the deputy, could you grab these barricades off the utility then shut down Host Church Road at Churchill, put everything extended or everything on Churchill please?
01:24
And Berks Utility 58 on scene.
01:26
Utility 58 on location 1605.
01:29
FD 52 is responding.
01:32
Either moments or early.
01:34
For 7050, give me permission to go to South Fire Police South Ops 2.
01:40
1058 affirmative, 1607.
01:42
All right, if you'd like Montgomery 38 call me by phone there on another run.
01:46
If I need somebody else, I'll call you back.
01:49
Received, 1607.
01:51
Captain, Fire Police 58.
01:54
Shut Host Church Road down at Churchill.
01:56
Everything up Churchill.

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PA-100 & Church Hill Rd, Hereford Township, PA 19504
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