Carbon monoxide alarm triggers at Reading residence, Reading PA

Fire & Arson

Reported: 11/6/2025 08:27 PM

Near Mulberry St, Reading, PA 19604

Fire and EMS units responded to a carbon monoxide alarm near Mulberry Street in Reading, Pennsylvania. Elevated carbon monoxide levels were found on multiple floors. A pregnant woman reported feeling drowsy and nauseous due to carbon monoxide exposure.

Audio|Source: City of Reading Fire/EMS

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Transcript:

00:00

Tension, engine, 9, lighter 3, rescue 1,

00:03

medic 9. near Weber Street, between Union Street and Amity Street,

00:09

carbon monoxide activation with symptoms, 23-2027.

00:13

Manager 9, Moldare.

00:15

Tension 9, 23-203.

00:18

Medi-9, we're responding, switching over.

00:21

Medicine, mercy.

00:23

Borgheim-19-39, Molder?

00:26

Lighter 3, responder.

00:30

Clare 4 near Mulberry

00:37

Clare 4, near Mulberry's street basement of an outside alarm filling off.

00:44

There's a lead out of 666, a 20-year-old female is pregnant, feeling drowsy and nauseous.

00:55

All right, we saw near Malbara.

00:59

We're still in 2320.

01:05

Engine 9's arriving, we're checking.

01:09

Engine 9 arrived in 2320.

01:15

Power 4 is on scene with the assignment.

01:20

Call 4 on scene with the assignment, 2330.

01:23

I agree to the car floor.

01:25

Initial reading, first floor, nine parts per million CO.

01:29

Copy.

01:34

Nine crew into a car floor.

01:37

Car four. Car four.

01:42

Second floor, rear,

01:44

31 parts per million CO.

01:47

Okay. Okay.

01:52

There's someone able to find the thermostat and kick it up.

02:03

The chimney would be on the D-Delta exposure.

02:10

Is it the D-Delta side?

02:13

Yes.

02:16

Same side as the Baker's out?

02:20

Correct.

02:22

Okay.

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