{"id":168532,"date":"2026-04-17T13:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/168532\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T13:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:31:09","slug":"lehigh-county-fire-company-to-hold-fundraiser-for-berks-fire-company-after-death-of-chief-assistant-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/168532\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh County fire company to hold fundraiser for Berks fire company after death of chief, assistant chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Lehigh County fire company will hold a breakfast this weekend to raise funds for a Berks County fire company whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/04\/05\/two-berks-fire-company-leaders-killed-in-route-222-crash\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fire chief and assistant fire chief were killed in a crash<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lynnport Community Fire Co. is partnering with New Tripoli fire crews to host an all-you-can-eat breakfast from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Sunday at 7164 Behler Road in New Tripoli, the fire company said. The funds for breakfast will go to Walnuttown Fire and Rescue.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Jeffory Buck and Assistant Chief Robert Shick Jr. died after a crash April 4 on Route 222 while searching for a missing woman in Richmond Township, according to authorities. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingeagle.com\/2026\/04\/06\/driver-charged-in-crash-that-killed-2-berks-firefighters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A New York man is charged in their deaths.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Lehigh County fire company will hold a breakfast this weekend to raise funds for a Berks County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,182,139,432],"class_list":["post-168532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168532","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=168532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}