{"id":158346,"date":"2026-04-06T09:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T09:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/158346\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T09:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T09:37:14","slug":"2-pennsylvania-firefighters-in-utv-killed-in-head-on-crash-during-search-for-a-missing-woman-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/158346\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Pennsylvania firefighters in UTV killed in head-on crash during search for a missing woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">RICHMOND TOWNSHIP, Pa. (AP) \u2014 Two firefighters traveling in a utility vehicle along a Pennsylvania road during a search for a missing woman were killed in a head-on crash with a car, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The two members of the Walnuttown Fire Company died after the crash with a Toyota Camry at about 6 p.m. Saturday, roughly 45 miles (72 kilometers) northwest of Philadelphia. Fire Chief Jeff Buck and Assistant Fire Chief Robert Shick, Jr. were heading north when they were struck by a sedan heading south on Route 222, according to the Berks County Coroner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/two-people-killed-crash-route-222-lehigh-county\/4380192\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBC Philadelphia reported<\/a> that the utility vehicle was riding on the shoulder of Route 222 when the Camry swerved off of the road. Police told the station that a male and a female who were in the Camry when it crashed fled and were later arrested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Video from the crash scene shows the utility vehicle on its side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">No further details about the arrest or the search for the missing woman were immediately available Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A call and an email seeking information were made to the Fleetwood Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Autopsies on the firefighters, both residents of Fleetwood, were scheduled for Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cAt this time we would like to send our thoughts and prayers\u201d to the Shick and Buck families, the Walnuttown Fire Company said in a Facebook post. \u201cRest easy chiefs, we got it from here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RICHMOND TOWNSHIP, Pa. (AP) \u2014 Two firefighters traveling in a utility vehicle along a Pennsylvania road during a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31,71595,71596,5575,28,30,29,206],"class_list":{"0":"post-158346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-crime-pennsylvania","10":"tag-firefighters-killed","11":"tag-missing-woman","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","14":"tag-pennsylvania-news","15":"tag-police"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158346","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=158346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}