Category: A-Shift

Hose Cleaning Day

  Yesterday’s 3-alarm fire on Carlisle Street in Hanover Borough makes for a Friday morning of hose scrubbing. A-Shift firefighters made quick work of the needed task. Video Clip

Fill The Boot For MDA

  Firefighters and EMS members of Local IAFF 2045 are out again today collecting  donations for the MDA Fill The boot Drive. We are located on Eisenhower Drive at the Red Lobster intersection, as well as both entrances to the entrances to the Grandview Plaza shopping center on Baltimore Street. Help us reach our commitment …

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Job Announcement – Career Firefighters Wanted!

  Hanover Borough and Penn Township have started the process of creating a list of potential candidates to become career firefighters for Hanover Borough and/or Penn Township. All applicants must be a United States citizen and/or legal alien of this country, 21 years of age, high school graduate (or equivalent), and driver’s license to apply …

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Car Into House

Engine 46-1 and Ambulance 49-3 responded to the 100 block of Meade Avenue in Hanover Borough for a vehicle into a house Saturday. 

Fire Extinguisher Training

   Firefighters spent the morning with employees of Snyders-Lance for their annual hands on fire extinguisher training. Employees were shown the proper use of a fire extinguisher and how to control and extinguish a fire by Penn Township and Hanover firefighters. 

Helmet Cam Video (E. Middle Street Fire)

2nd Alarm On East Middle Street

An early morning house fire in the 200 block of East Middle Street brought Hanover and Penn Township Fire Departments to a house fire believed to be caused by a lightening strike with passing storms in the area overnight. 911 Photography Photo Gallery

Carroll County 2nd Alarm Fire

Tuesday evening Hanover and Penn Township Fire Departments were dispatched to assist on a working house fire on Westminster Street, just off Route 27 in Carroll County Maryland. Engine 46-1, Truck 49, Rescue 49 responded. Engine 46 and Rescue 49 worked on scene for about thirty minutes before returning to service. Truck 49’s crew operated …

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Smoke In The House

Hanover and Penn Township firefighters on A Shift responded to 909 York Street in Penn Township for “smoke in the house”. firefighters found a refrigerator on fire in the basement. Photo by 911 Photography 

Apartment Bldg. Fire With Entrapment (A-Shift)

Hanover and Penn Township firefighters responded around 03:00 hours Friday morning in Penn Township for a reported apartment building fire on Alvin Street with possible entrapment. Two Penn Township police officer’s arrived to find residents self evacuating and with the report of maybe a man still inside. Making entry the two officers located and removed one …

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