IAFF Local #2045

Category: Community Education

  • Fire Prevention Activities Continue

    Fire Prevention Activities Continue

    IMG_20151015_101625483[1]Fire prevention activities continued today with a detail at New Beginnings Child Care Center in Penn Township. Here, FF Kemmerly from the Hanover Fire Department dresses up a staff member in turnout gear and SCBA. The detail was broken into several portions: a lecture in the classroom, dress up for those who wished to do so, a tour of Truck 49, and lastly, extinguisher training for staff members.

  • Fire Prevention Activities Continue At Penn Township Assisted Living Facility

    Fire Prevention Activities Continue At Penn Township Assisted Living Facility

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    The day’s fire prevention activities continued with fire extinguisher training for the staff of Columbia Cottage of Hanover. Many businesses throughout Hanover Borough, Penn Township, and West Manheim Township conduct annual in-service fire extinguisher training for their employees. Utilizing the Bullex system (shown) allows efficient and environmentally responsible extinguisher training. Here, FF Charlie Hale directs a staff member on extinguisher use while FF Jason Kopp runs the control system. 

  • Fire Extinguisher Training At Penn Township Business

    Fire Extinguisher Training At Penn Township Business

    IMG_20151014_101539758_HDR-01[1]This morning, Penn Township staff from the Clover Lane station handled fire extinguisher training at Finch Services, located on Frederick Street. October continues to be a busy month with multiple fire prevention, extinguisher training, and inspection activities.

  • Hanover Street Elementary Fire Prevention

    Hanover Street Elementary Fire Prevention

    Penn Township and Hanover Fire Departments Fire Prevention team took the show on the road again today to Hanover Street Elementary School where an auditorium full of children and teacher learned about escape plans, smoke detectors, meeting places as well as watched the antics of Helmet, Played by FF Smith trying to kick a field goal while Capt. Amspacher kept doing the old “Lucy” trick from Charlie Brown show where she pulled the football out just as Charlie Brown attempted to kick the ball….well, the captain did that numerous times for Helmet. That’s okay, a yellow penalty flag  was thrown by the official Bo played by FF Startzel.

    Firefighters Angel, Waltermyer, Arnold, and Sponseller, Kemmerly, Johnston and fire police captain Angel played vital rolls assisting in the successful and fun program.

  • Smoke Detectors Save Lives

    Smoke Detectors Save Lives

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    It is that time of the year again when firefighters from Hanover and Penn Township Fire Departments will be out in the public and schools teaching fire prevention to our youth and residents. Plenty of fire prevention presentations  are already on the calendar for the next two weeks. We strongly encourage all residents to have smoke detectors installed in every bedroom of their homes, as well as check and replace your batteries on a regular basis.

  • Staff Receives “Hero Badges”

    Staff Receives “Hero Badges”

    This evening, employees from Chick-fil-A arrived at the Wirt Park station bearing “Hero Badges” from children that have recently eaten at the Hanover Chick-fil-A restaurant. The Hero Badges were colored, signed by the children, and attached to a delicious chocolate chip cookie from the restaurant. A big “Thank You” goes out to Chick-fil-A, Zephaniah, Campo, Leah, Alex, LeeAnn, Finnley, Leo, Paloma, Gabe, Leah, Ayden, Ada, Josian, Riley, and Nathan for thinking of us!

  • Fire Extinguisher Training 

      
    Local (West Manhiem Twp) Brothers Barnes, Misner And Miller Teaching The Proper Use Of Fire Extinguishers To Staff At SpirTrust Nursing Home.

  • Homewood Mens’ group tours FS 49

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    This morning, Fire Station 49 staff hosted a tour for a Mens’ group from Homewood Living Community which is located in Penn Township. Captain Miller, FF Angel, and FF Brown gave a complete station tour explaining all facets of the operation to the roughly 35 attendees. The group was very inquisitive and impressed with our operation. FF Kemmerly from Fire Station 46 activated box 1223 from the Hanover Fire Museum so we could demonstrate how the Gamewell system operates.

     

  • UTZ Summer Bash

    Today members of IAFF 2045 attended the Utz summer bash held at the Carlisle Street facility. Members gave tours of the fire truck and handed out fire prevention material to the children and adults in attendance. We started the event at 12:00 and currently still here. The bash goes on until 6 pm this evening.

  • Fire Extinguisher Training

    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.