Ahead for Spring-Ford school district families: a Philadelphia performance by the Middle School jazz ensemble, a fun-fair fund-raiser at Brooke Elementary school, and trivia night in Royersford.
Michael Lessar, one of the Royersford Fire Department's first full-time employees and a former Pottstown fire chief, died Monday of COVID-19. A Tuesday honor procession, created by his peers and colleagues, provided an escort to a Reading funeral home.
Members and volunteers of five local fire companies and departments helped clear a dump truck accident Friday morning on U.S. Route 422 west of Route 29, which spread sand across the highway.
The borough will partner with Giant Market to conduct a Pfizer coronavirus vaccination clinic Friday at the fire department on Walnut Street. It's open to the public, age 16 and older.
Two fire companies, an ambulance, and police all were dispatched Monday morning to a two-vehicle accident that occurred at the intersection of Lewis and Yeager roads in Upper Providence, a report said.
Pennsylvania American Water has issued its annual round of firefighting support grants, and this year's recipients include the Sanatoga Fire Company, and Limerick and Royersford fire departments.
When Royersford firefighters were called out Sunday night, they expected to encounter a vehicle fire at 2nd Avenue and Springertown Road. They found that, then suddenly were needed for a second incident nearby.
A Monday shed fire that attracted first responders from the Liberty Fire Company and Royersford Fire Department burned so hotly that it melted siding off the side of an adjacent house.