Units responded to a two vehicle collision Friday evening at the intersection in front of Chilpoltle on Wislson Avenue.
Category: A-Shift
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Firefighter Smith Retires
Firefighter Terry Smith is working his last tour as a career firefighter for Hanover Borough today. Firefighter Smith served the citizens of Hanover for thirty eight years and four months. IAFF Local 2045 wishes brother Smith a long, healthy and prosperous retirement, you earned it. -
Water Rescue Awareness Training
Tonight Instructor Brad Tracey from the Pennsylvania Boat & Fish Commission was training our members on Water Rescue Awareness. This is the first class in a series to better prepare our members for urban flood that may occur in our local area. 17 members from Hanover Borough and Penn Township attended along with three other members from surrounding departments.
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Mutual Aid For Barn Fire
Engine 46-3 established the water supply with portable tanks this afternoon at a barn fire on High Rock Road in Berwick Township, Adams County. Engine 46-1 had the fill site for the tankers in the water supply shuttle. Both engines worked the scene for 3.5 hours. One week ago “A” shift covered rural water supply in our daily training. Yesterday training prepared our crew for today’s emergency!
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Rural Water Operations
Members of “A” shift drilled today on pumping operations. Training consisted of drafting, running rural water supply, and hand line operations
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Mutual Aid To New Oxford
Stations 46 and 49 were alerted to respond to Adams County box 33-4 at 06:10 hours on Monday March 27th for the commercial building fire at the old Keystone Diner (now the New Oxford Family Diner) on the York Road. Truck 46 was put to work on the “Alpha” side while other crews from stations 46 and 49 served in other roles including RIT.
911 Photography Photo Gallery
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Hauling & Lowering Systems
Today’s “A” shift training was a construction worker that fell and was saved by his safety belay line. Crews went over three different ways to remove this employee from this situation. Crews used a 4:1, 3:1, and a 3:1 piggy back haul systems to raise the construction worker and then used a figure 8 and rappel rack to lower the victim to the ground where Emergency Medical Services took over patient care!
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Rainy Day Brings 4 Crashes!
Rain in the Greater Hanover area today has brought multiple crashes for members of IAFF 2045. First one dispatched was at Moul Avenue and Ridge Avenue. Second accident was an assist to York Station 53 on Moulstown Road with one victim extricated. The third accident was on Eisenhower Drive which involved a mass transit bus. The photo shown above had two vehicles with a travel trailer on the side.
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Lunch & Extinguisher Program!
Today members had a luncheon and a fire extinguisher program at the Clearview Terrace Apartments. Lunch today was soup and salad with our firefighters enjoying this meal with the residences. Pictured here is Firefighter Smith enjoying some after lunch discussion with one of the tables. Once lunch was finished the fire extinguisher program was given and the tenant were taken outside to do the hands on portion of the program.
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Hose Testing
Tuesday and Thursday had “A” shift testing fire hose. Tuesday we tested 7000′ of supply hose that is kept on our five engines and two ladder trucks. Thursday was our day to test hand lines, which are kept on all the apparatus with over 15,000′. Over 100 man-hours were spent ensuring the hose will not fail during fire suppression activities that we respond to over the next year. The hose testing must be completed every year for the benefit of our community. By testing our hose this helps with our Insurance Service Office (ISO) rating in the Hanover and Penn Township communities. By keeping our ISO rating low this helps to keep your fire insurances premiums lower.