{"id":162640,"date":"2026-04-10T19:43:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/162640\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T19:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:43:15","slug":"funerals-for-2-pa-firefighters-killed-on-duty-to-be-held-at-fleetwood-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/162640\/","title":{"rendered":"Funerals for 2 PA firefighters killed on duty to be held at Fleetwood High School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joint viewing and funeral services for two Berks County <a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingeagle.com\/2026\/04\/05\/two-berks-fire-company-leaders-killed-in-route-222-crash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">firefighters killed in the line of duty April 4<\/a> will be held in the Fleetwood High School auditorium, 803 N. Richmond St., Fleetwood.<\/p>\n<p>The viewings for Walnuttown Fire Chief Jeffory L. Buck and Assistant Chief Robert R. Shick Jr. will be held Friday from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. The funerals will be held Saturday at 11 a.m., with the doors opening at 9:15. There is no viewing Saturday, and burials will be private.<\/p>\n<p>Buck and Shick were in a utility vehicle searching for a missing woman Saturday when they were hit by a vehicle while they were on the shoulder of Route 222 in Richmond Township. A New York man, who was driving the vehicle that hit them, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingeagle.com\/2026\/04\/06\/driver-charged-in-crash-that-killed-2-berks-firefighters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">has been charged with vehicular homicide while DUI, hit-and-run and involuntary manslaughter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All Pennsylvania and U.S. flags on state facilities, public buildings and grounds across the state were ordered Monday to fly at half-staff immediately in honor of Buck and Shick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joint viewing and funeral services for two Berks County firefighters killed in the line of duty April 4&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,139,28,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-162640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162640","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=162640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}