Volunteers Protect 700,000 Residents of Reading, Pa.
A visitor to Reading, Pa., sees a city that is pulsating with industrial life.
Reading, with a population of approximately 100,000 people, and 9.6 square miles, has the largest fullfashioned hosiery mill in the world, the largest single unit foundry in the world under one roof, the largest brick-burning kiln in the world, the largest locomotive and car shops in the world, the largest paint manufacturing plant in the world, the largest pretzel bakery in the world— and it is protected by a volunteer fire department.
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