Firefighters from both Penn Township and Hanover Fire Departments, career and volunteer participated in the annual Fill The Boot Drive for MDA today. Equipment and firefighters were staged at both ends of Hanover at the shopping center on Baltimore Pike as well as on Eisenhower Drive collecting money from the very generous donators passing by our apparatus and members. The MDA boot drive is an annual fundraiser where IAFF Local 2045 donates to each year.
Engine 46-3 established the water supply with portable tanks this afternoon at a barn fire on High Rock Road in Berwick Township, Adams County. Engine 46-1 had the fill site for the tankers in the water supply shuttle. Both engines worked the scene for 3.5 hours. One week ago “A” shift covered rural water supply in our daily training. Yesterday training prepared our crew for today’s emergency!
Engine 49-2 from the Clearview Fire Station responded along with EMS from Penn Township to Wilson Avenue and Industrial Drive in Hanover Borough for a vehicle reported over a bridge and down an embankment. Engine 49-2 arrived to find Hanover PD with the driver of a SUV that ran off the roadway, down the embankment, over a traffic sign and came to rest sitting in the grass, no injuries to the occupant.
A non-injury vehicle accident sent units to the area of Baltimore Street and Meadow Lane during the mid-morning hours. Engine 49-1 arrived to find a rollback and passenger vehicle involved, both off the roadway. The rollback narrowly missed a utility pole that contained multiple transformers and high tension lines. No injuries were found and Fire/EMS services were not needed.
The football players from the Baresville Elementary football team takes a knee in a show of sportsmanship and respect while our EMS crew attend to an injured football player from the Manheim Vikings.
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!
Hanover and Penn Township Fire Departments responded overnight for a house fire in the five hundred block of North Franklin Street, where firefighters found smoke showing from a house. Firefighters found smoky conditions throughout the house. A dehumidifier in the basement is suspected as the cause of the fire.
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.
At approximately 22:30 hours on Monday evening, a local alarm was transmitted for a reported woods fire in the area of York Street and Deagen Road in Penn Township. Car 49 arrived several minutes after dispatch and requested an upgraded assignment due to a large fire involving hay and straw bales. Additional engine and brush companies were requested as well as a “Working Fire Assignment”. E49-1 arrived and dropped a supply line at the intersection of Deagen Road and York Street and it was secured by Engine 49-2. A positive water supply was established via a hydrant on the property of Hanover Brands on York Street. Initial knockdown of the fire was achieved by Engine 49-1 and Brush 49 utilizing fixed and portable streams. All told, an area approximately 75′ x 75′ x 15′ high was involved. Farmers, utilizing heavy equipment, ripped the piles apart and Truck 46 cooled the material as it was spread out. Crews remained on-scene for well over 12 hours to ensure the material posed no re-ignition threat. A big “thank you” goes out to the mutual-aid companies who assisted at this incident: Pleasant Hill Fire, Porters Fire, UHAL (Adams 33), SAVES (Adams 29), Hanover, and a number of fire police from area fire companies.
(Photos courtesy of PTVES Paramedic King)