A tractor-trailer combination attempting to negotiate the hilly curve on North Pleasant View Road in Lower Pottsgrove got its rear wheels stuck in a ditch. It blocked the highway for about 25 minutes.
In what responding fire police claim was the latest of several similar incidents in recent days, railroad crossing gates lowered prematurely Friday night on South Hanover Street. A train arrived about 15 minutes later.
Five fires in Lower Pottsgrove during 2021 created combined total property losses of $459,800, according to an annual report from Fire Marshal Lew Babel. It also documents last year's volunteer contributions at the township's fire companies.
While its nice to have friends, having friends with power tools needed in a pinch are an extra bonus. Sanatoga Fire Company volunteers offered that kind of friendship last week to the Lower Pottsgrove Public Works Department.
Volunteers and units from both Lower Pottsgrove Township fire companies were called Tuesday at about noon to put out a dumpster fire in the 1600 block of North Keim Street, near Brooke Road.
With video. Lower Pottsgrove volunteer firefighters and the fire marshal arrived Friday to find flames shooting from a deck fire at around 5:27 a.m. on the 100 block of Danny Road in the township.
Three occupants of two cars all escaped injury following a Tuesday crash at around 11:45 a.m. on westbound U.S. Route 422, just west of the Sanatoga interchange. Both vehicles were heavily damaged.
What was initially labeled as a brush fire Saturday night on the 1400 block of North Sanatoga Road in Lower Pottsgrove turned out to be less than that. Firefighters quickly put out a minor blaze.
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