Category: Fires

Early Morning Carlsile Street Fire

Captain Clousher (46-B) directs operations at a working fire at 972 Carlisle Street early Wednesday morning. Stations 46 & 49 were alerted at 02:11 hours for a house fire with people trapped. Truck 46 arrived to smoke showing to the rear of the two story occupied duplex, captain 46-B requested the working fire assignment immediately. …

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RIT Goes To New Oxford Fire

B Shift was awakened around 03:00 hours Thursday morning to assist Adams County company 33 on a working basement fire on New Chester Road. Engine 46-1 and Rescue 49 were alerted for the RIT assignment. While en-route, a MAY Day was called on the scene for a firefighter that had fallen through the floor into …

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Wire Cloth Dust Fire Again

Another Friday night fire at Hanover Wire Cloth on Middle Street brought a box alarm. Truck 49 operates as companies brought the fire under control within thirty minutes.

Firefighters On Adams County Fire

The first working fire of the year for IAFF 2045 members was in Adams County Friday night, January 2 at 21:33 hours. Engine 46-1 responded with firefighters Kemmerly, Sponseller and Waltermyer to a working mobile home fire in Adams County Box 33-14 on Green Springs Road. 911 Photography Photo Gallery

Christmas Day Auto Fire

Firefighter B. McDerrmit takes the window of a Dodge Ram pickup on the parking lot of Apple Dodge, 200 Eisenhower Drive on Christmas Day. B-shift ran two previous runs throughout the day prior to this small electrical fire. Captain Spickler was working overtime with B-Shift. The fire was handled by Engine 49-2 and Engine 46-1. 

Burnt Chicken Gets FD Response

Just as lunch was ready Friday afternoon, after a busy morning, Box 46-05 was dispatched for the FIRE ALARM at 201 Filbert Street in Hanover Borough. Engine and Truck 46 arrived to find nothing visible from the exterior of a one story single family structure. Captain Spickler, (working over), investigated and found a elderly female …

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Commercial Building Fire

Friday morning, just after shift change at 07:44 hours, York County Box 49-03 was struck for the commercial building fire on Black Rock Road, just off Baltimore Street at the old Cold Storage Facility, the scene of a working for nearly one year prior on 9-27-13 (photo here). From the square of Hanover, Truck 46’s …

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Barn Fire In Adams County

Saturday, just after the noon hour, Engine 46-1 and Engine 49-2 responded into Adams County Box 10-3 to assist on the three alarm barn fire on Plum Run Road, just outside New Oxford between New Chester and Hampton.

Stubborn Commercial Building Fire

A “Hard Work Fire” is a good way to describe today’s fire in Hanover Borough. Companies from Hanover, Penn Twp., SAVES and United spent half the day searching for this stubborn fire at Leonhardt Manufacturing on High Street in Hanover Borough. For additional photos go to 911 Photography Photo Gallery

Garage and Auto Fire

At 04;19 Saturday morning, York County Box 46-01 was struck for a vehicle fire in Hanover Borough to the rear of 501 Moul Avenue in the alley. Shortly after dispatch, York County 911 upgraded the assignment to a structure fire with a reported garage on fire. Engine 49-2 out of the Clearview Station several blocks …

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