Today 14 members of Local 2045 received lunch from the Olive Garden Restaurant located on Wilson Avenue in Penn Township. They are doing a promotion for their new pasta bar and wanted to share with their first responders. Members enjoyed spaghetti and meatballs, chicken Alfredo, sausage, salad, and bread sticks for lunch. Thank you to the owners and employees of our local Olive Garden!
This afternoon members of the First United Methodist Church located in Hanover brought a huge card signed by the children and members of their congregation. Along with the card was a large plate of cookies and brownies for our members to enjoy. Thank you to the congregation from the Firefighters working today on the 15th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks!
Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will remember every rescuer who died in honor. We will remember every family that lives in grief. We will remember the fire and ash, the last phone calls, the funerals of the children.
– President George W. Bush
This evening Truck 49 and Truck 46 (retired truck) set up to provide the ladder arch for the healing field display. The ladder arch will be set up each day of the event from 0900 hours to dark. If you are in the area please make sure you stop by and see the awesome display of patriotism and never forget what happen 15 years ago this Sunday.
Training continues on our acquired structures on Eisenhower Drive. This evening crews moved over to the old pizza hut building and went over vertical ventilation on peaked type roofs. Crews practiced doing ventilation cuts from ground ladders and also from the aerial trucks. At the end of training a few members decided to leave our mark on the building with our shift letter “A”!
Wednesday evening training took us inside the acquired structure. Tonight members from “A” Shift did forcible entry using the rotary disk saw. Crews trained on cutting latches and hinges on metal framed doors found on commercial type structures.
Hanover and Penn Township firefighters continue to training on our acquired structure on Eisenhower Driver. This evening members from “A” shift went over vertical ventilation on metal deck roof found on commercial structures. Our members are having a great training opportunity on this building to hone our skill on a building of this type!
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Sutphen sales rep John Lawver stopped by Fire Station 49 this morning with a demonstrator aerial ladder for crews to look over. The Sutphen SLR 75 is Sutphen’s first venture into the straight ladder market. PTDFRS currently has an apparatus committee in-place to look at all of the current aerial options with the hope of replacing the current Truck 49 in the next few years. At this point in time, no manufacturer or type of aerial apparatus has been decided upon and the committee is evaluating all possibilities.
Hanover and Penn Township “C” Shift crews (minus FF Waltemyer who is on vacation) and some family members met for lunch today at Fire Station 46. We used this opportunity to have a celebratory lunch for FF Doug Kemmerly who is being promoted to shift captain on “A” Shift. From all of us on “C” Shift, we’d like to extend our best wishes to Captain Kemmerly when he begins his new assignment on June 27th of this year.
Truck 46 and Quint 29 prepare to go back in service after being alerted to UTZ Quality Foods on High Street in Hanover Borough for a fire on the roof. A fire was found in one of the stacks. The box was placed in service in about thirty minutes.