{"id":158709,"date":"2026-04-06T18:32:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/158709\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T18:32:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T18:32:33","slug":"flags-in-pa-ordered-to-half-staff-by-gov-josh-shapiro-to-honor-fallen-berks-firefighters-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/158709\/","title":{"rendered":"Flags in PA ordered to half-staff by Gov. Josh Shapiro to honor fallen Berks Firefighters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/governor\/newsroom\/2026-press-releases\/gov-shapiro-orders-commonwealth-flags-to-half-staff-to-honor-fal0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Monday ordered<\/a> all Pennsylvania and United States flags on Commonwealth facilities, public buildings and grounds across the state lowered to fly at half-staff to honor Fire Chief Jeffory L. Buck and Assistant Fire Chief Robert R. Shick Jr. of the Walnuttown Fire Company in Berks County.<\/p>\n<p>They were killed in the line of duty April 4, when the utility vehicle they were using to search for a missing woman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingeagle.com\/2026\/04\/05\/two-berks-fire-company-leaders-killed-in-route-222-crash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">was hit on Route 222<\/a> in Richmond Township. A New York man was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingeagle.com\/2026\/04\/06\/driver-charged-in-crash-that-killed-2-berks-firefighters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">charged with vehicular homicide while DUI<\/a> and involuntary manslaughter and jailed in Berks County on outstanding warrants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlags shall remain lowered to half-staff until the date of interment, which has not yet been announced,\u201d the governor\u2019s announcement state. \u201cAll Pennsylvanians are invited to participate in this tribute.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro on Monday ordered all Pennsylvania and United States flags on Commonwealth facilities, public buildings&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[71821,71820,71822,128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-158709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-fallen-firefighters","9":"tag-flags-at-half-staff","10":"tag-killed-in-the-line-of-duty","11":"tag-reading-city","12":"tag-reading-city-headlines","13":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158709","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=158709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}