June 2011 fire company service statistics in Lower Pottsgrove

POTTSTOWN PA – Tanker shuttle, driver training, pump training, and a meeting of fire company engineers to review truck maintenance kept members of Lower Pottsgrove’s Ringing Hill Fire Company, White Pine Lane, Pottstown PA, busy with training-related tasks during June. It was the latest month for which township Fire Marshal Lew Babel presented statistics this week to the Board of Commissioners.

The work kept 14 Ringing Hill volunteers active in 10 different training exercise for a total of 65-1/2 man hours, according to Babel’s printed report. Similarly, the township’s Sanatoga Fire Company, East High Street, Pottstown, held 11 training classes during the month, involving a total of 82 participants and 276 man hours, it said.

The marshal’s report, usually delivered during the board’s first monthly meeting, details the companies’ activities of 60 days earlier. It also covers the monthly activities of Sanatoga Fire Police. The table above summarizes his June report.

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