IAFF Local #2045

Category: Members

  • Bikin’ For Boobies!

    Bikin’ For Boobies!

  • Water Rescue Awareness Training

    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.

  • A Pre-Dinner Work Out

    A Pre-Dinner Work Out

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    Hanover firefighter Garibay has a little workout before dinner this evening at the Wirt Park Fire Station. Utilizing an large, very heavy Good Year tire, FF Garibay flipped it over and over again the whole length of the fire station before sitting down to dinner with his crew. Staying in shape is important for a firefighters health and safety.

  • 15 Years Later – NEVER FORGET!

    15 Years Later – NEVER FORGET!

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    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

  • Acquired Training Continues!

    Acquired Training Continues!

    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”!

  • Department Training Finds Crews Cutting Cars

    Department Training Finds Crews Cutting Cars

    Four joint department training this evening, crews cut apart two vehicles using the hydraulic rescue tools off of Rescue 49. More commonly known as the “Jaws of Life”, hydraulic rescue tools are used to rescue occupants who are trapped in a vehicle. The newer members of the department were guided through basic evolutions such as the “two door swing”, roof removal, roof flap, and dashboard lifting/jacking. A HUGE thank you goes out to Mike’s Towing and Recovery. Mike’s provided two vehicles and use of their facility for our training.

  • “C” Shift Conducts Facility Tour In Hanover Borough

    “C” Shift Conducts Facility Tour In Hanover Borough

    For the regularly scheduled shift training, C Shift toured the Lyric Band building on York Street in Hanover Borough. This building was originally the YMCA and was constructed in the early Twentieth Century. The type of construction found in this building is often called “Legacy Construction” by the fire service. Many interesting features were found in this building such as a wooden indoor track that used to exist above the main gym floor. Facility tours such as this allow crews to obtain vital information about a building in the event of fire or other emergency.

  • FF Lalley All Smiles

      
    Santa? Nah, just the other legend, “J Shift” probationary firefighter Jay Lalley today during the annual Black Friday parade where the big guy, Santa Claus arrived back in Hanover via Truck 46. 

  • Elevator Rescue Operations Class Kicks Off In Hanover/Penn

    Elevator Rescue Operations Class Kicks Off In Hanover/Penn

    IMG_20151109_205031917[1]Last evening, the first class of a 16-hour Elevator Rescue Operations class kicked off at Wirt Park Fire Station. This class is split into two evenings as well as a Sunday and covers all facets of elevator rescue operations. While elevator rescues don’t occur everyday in Hanover and Penn Township, they do happen with some regularity. The instructor for this class is retired Harrisburg Bureau of Fire Battalion Chief and current Fort Indiantown Gap Assistant Fire Chief, Sam Clark. The class will make several field visits in Hanover Borough and Penn Township to look at and train on different elevator installations. In the picture above, crews review the drive system for a cable traction elevator at the Hotel McAllister in Hanover Borough. 

  • Unique Awareness Support

    Unique Awareness Support

     
    Paramedic Jenna Hunt got creative in her support for breast cancer awareness by lacing up her work boots for the month of October with bright pink shoe strings and no doubt will start a new trend among the ranks. Great job to our sister Jenna!!