Collegeville Fire Company No. 1

E 9th Ave. Collegeville from Main Street side

E 9th Ave., Collegeville from Route 29 side

E 9th Ave., from Route 29 side

E 9th Ave., from Main St. side

One of the pulled out poles

Another pulled out pole

E 9th Avenue @ Glenfarms Drive

6th Avenue

6th Avenue, Tree, wires, pole and transformer down

Broken pole with transformer on the ground

Looking from St Eleanor's Church

View or broken pole with transformer, looking from St Eleanor's Church

Looking towards Main Street

Electrical transformer on the ground, 6th Avenu

Electric Crew working by Hunsberger Woods straightening out a pole.

Crews working on E 9th Ave., closer to Glenfarms Drive.

Crews on E 9th Avenue

Tree on 6th Avenue


By Member Jeffrey Wentworth
March 3, 2018

On Friday 3-3-18 the winter storm took a lot of folks by surprise. The snow came in sooner than forecast and started to accumulate quickly. The Snow along with the high winds knocked out power to much of Collegeville and surrounding Communities. Emergency Service personal were extremely busy with trees and wires down, alarm calls throughout Collegeville. The hardest hit area in Collegeville was E. 9th Avenue. (see pictures). 6th Avenue was the second hardest hit. (see pictures). Traffic lights throughout Collegeville were out due to the power outage, thanks to the members of the Collegeville Fire Company (firefighters & fire police) and Collegeville PD, generators were placed at the traffic lights to make them operational during the power outage. At about 5:30 am power was restored to much of Collegeville. All Traffic lights were returned to their normal operating mode.

Mutual Aid:	Collegeville Office of Emergency Management, Collegeville Police Department