The Reading Fire Department has a new leader. At a City Hall news conference attended by department heads throughout his administration, Mayor Eddie Moran introduced Robert Leonard II as the new chief ...

Reading’s highest-ranking women in the police and fire departments, and two outside experts, all independently agreed that the city should not specifically recruit women to fix the gap. The goal, they ...

READING, Pa. – Reading City Council on Monday presented a proclamation to longtime Fire Chief James G. Stoudt Jr. on the occasion of his retirement. Council President Donna Reed said that Stoudt began ...

Lt. Rebecca Zentmyer is the only professional female firefighter in Reading. This story was produced by the Berks County bureau of Spotlight PA, an independent, nonpartisan newsroom. Sign up for Good ...

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