READING, Pa. – Whatever your career or occupation may be, or how long you’ve been doing it, you know there are days you don’t forget.<\/p>\n
“They found a deceased adult on the first floor right by the stairs and as the crews proceeded, many reports from the neighbors that children were trapped,” said Reading Fire Chief James Stoudt.<\/p>\n
The same goes for our first responders, as Chief Stoudt recalls the Huyett Street fire that took the lives of one adult and four children in 1997.<\/p>\n
“When you have a tragic fire like that, a fatality involved especially with children, it impacts everybody in many ways,” he said.<\/p>\n
We’re standing near where Huyett Street used to be. According to Chief Stoudt, some fires have such an impact that they change the landscape of where they happened.<\/p>\n
“I can’t speak for the residents, but I think it did impact them to a point where most of the block became vacated and redevelopment happened and the properties were bought and two new businesses are back in there now,” Stoudt said.<\/p>\n
The Reading Fire Department empathizes with what other neighboring departments have to face on a daily basis – especially when people can’t be saved. These types of fire are also used to educate those coming into the force.<\/p>\n
“Our training division does touch on lot of the multiple fatal fires with our recruits as they’re in the academy,” Stoudt added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. – Whatever your career or occupation may be, or how long you’ve been doing it, you…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[6424,6423,28,736,128,130,129,6425,6426],"class_list":{"0":"post-7211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-huyett-street-fire","9":"tag-james-stoudt","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-reading","12":"tag-reading-city","13":"tag-reading-city-headlines","14":"tag-reading-city-news","15":"tag-reading-fire-chief","16":"tag-reading-fire-department"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7211","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=7211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}