{"id":157911,"date":"2026-04-05T17:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T17:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/157911\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T17:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T17:11:08","slug":"2-pennsylvania-fire-chiefs-killed-in-crash-during-search-for-missing-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/157911\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Pennsylvania fire chiefs killed in crash during search for missing person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FLEETWOOD, Pa. \u2014 A Pennsylvania fire department is grieving the tragic loss of two chiefs killed in the line of duty on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Jeffory L. Buck and Assistant Chief Robert Shick each headed up the Walnuttown Fire Company in Berks County.<\/p>\n<p>The pair was assisting in the search of a missing person when their departmental Utility Task Vehicle was struck by a car, according to the Lehigh County Coroner, Daniel A. Buglio.<\/p>\n<p>Autopsies on both men will be conducted on Monday, April 6.<\/p>\n<p>No funeral arrangements have been announced at this time.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story that will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FLEETWOOD, Pa. \u2014 A Pennsylvania fire department is grieving the tragic loss of two chiefs killed in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[71480,71481,71482,71483,71484,71485,71486,71487,71488,71489,28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-157911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-walnuttownfirecompany","9":"tag-assistant-chief-robert-shick-utv-crash","10":"tag-assistant-chief-robert-shick-walnuttown-fire-company","11":"tag-assistant-fire-chief-robert-shick-funeral","12":"tag-assistant-fire-chief-robert-shick-killed-in-the-line-of-duty","13":"tag-assistant-fire-chief-robert-shick-line-of-duty-death","14":"tag-assistant-fire-chief-robert-shick-obituary","15":"tag-berks-county-pennsylvania","16":"tag-berks-county-pennsylvania-nextdoor","17":"tag-chief-jeffory-l-buck-utv-crash","18":"tag-pennsylvania","19":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","20":"tag-pennsylvania-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}