Truck fire with smoke near plum street in reading, Reading PA

Fire & Arson

Reported: 11/14/2025 07:24 AM

Near Plum St, Reading, PA 19602

A truck fire was reported near Plum Street in Reading with smoke seen coming from a nearby building. Emergency responders were dispatched to investigate and check the location.

Audio|Source: City of Reading Fire/EMS

02:22

Transcript:

00:00

Box 103, address to fire, next door to near Plum Street.

00:03

Coast Coast Street, St.

00:05

Stone Alley,

00:06

Truck fire reported with smoke from the building.

00:08

Engine engine, engine three, engine nine, engine seven, Tower 1, ladder one, rescue one.

00:14

Arrest engine 95, safety.

00:17

Medics, (number withheld), current station, 600,

00:20

box,

00:21

103, 103, address to fire near Plum Street next door to that structure.

00:26

Port is smoke down from the building,

00:29

1025.

00:31

Radio, medic 1, clear, put us on the box, free from the county.

00:37

Angie 5, Radio.

00:38

We'll put us on the box.

00:40

Angie 5, clear on the box, 1025.

00:43

Car 7, radio.

00:45

Madic 1, 1025.

00:47

Car 7.

00:51

Recall engine 7 and the county, and we'll be taking this virtual training.

00:59

So the run down will be Agent 5,

01:04

Agent 1, Agent 3, Agent 9.

01:08

That one. 2.34 point.

01:16

1326 call from the occupant near Plum street State smoke's coming from the abandoned building next door and comes from the back of the building

01:29

(number withheld) plumb

01:32

9-1027

01:36

Do you, a medic (number withheld) is responding.

01:38

You'll have to recall medic 1.3 of his handling.

01:43

You're available to 1027.

01:45

Yeah, I run a lot, everyone.

01:46

Coming from the south side.

01:49

All right. All right.

01:50

I'm assuming person to do.

01:57

Turing out of the door, middle of the row.

01:59

I'll have to open the area.

02:00

We'll be checking.

02:07

Second is on to stay with the assignment.

02:08

We've got an odor of an oil burner.

02:10

We'll be checking.

02:12

We'll be checking on location for the assignment.

02:14

Outer of an oil burner checking, 1028.

02:16

I'm going to wave, Elijah, an oil burner, first.

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