IAFF Local #2045

Category: Penn Township Fire Department

  • Annual Aerial And Ground Ladder Testing

    Annual Aerial And Ground Ladder Testing

     

    On this late summer day at Fire Station 49, aerial and ground ladder testing and certification was conducted by a third-party firm on Truck 46, Truck 49, and all ground ladders. The purpose of this testing is to ensure that the aerials and ladders meet the prescribed safety and loading requirements. NFPA 1911 (a national consensus standard) recommends annual aerial ladder testing and certification. NFPA 1932 (another national consensus standard) recommends annual ground ladder testing and certification.

  • Working Structure Fire 

    Working Structure Fire 

     
    Hanover and Penn Township Fire Departments responded for mutual aid to a working fire today at Lau’s Antique Shop & Lodging in New Oxford Borough on Lincoln Way East. 

    911 Photography Photo Gallery

     

  • Off-site Facility Tour At Crown Cork And Seal

    Off-site Facility Tour At Crown Cork And Seal

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    This morning, Hanover Fire and Penn Township Fire “C” Shift attended an off-site facility tour at Crown Cork and Seal located on Broadway in Penn Township. At the request of the facility safety supervisor, he wanted the fire department to come out to review permit-required confined space equipment. We also took the time to review fire safety features such as fire department connections to support the building’s sprinkler system, fire hydrant locations, and other fire safety features of the building. This type of pre-planning allows crews to get a look at these features should an emergency arise at the facility. It is often said that “When the moment of truth arrives, the time for preparation has passed”. These types of visits allow us to prepare should our services be needed.

    * Note: this facility requires all visitors to wear safety vests, hair nets, hearing protection, eye protection and gloves when touring their facility.

  • Hanover/Penn Fire And EMS Crews Treated To Olive Garden Lunch

    Hanover/Penn Fire And EMS Crews Treated To Olive Garden Lunch

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    Today, in honor of Labor Day, Olive Garden donated lunch to the fire and EMS crews working in Penn Township and Hanover Borough. We would like to thank the Olive Garden (located at 10 Wilson Ave. in the Gateway Shopping Center) for their gracious donation. Our thanks go out to the staff who prepared the meal as well as Olive Garden, at the corporate level, who provides these donations country-wide on Labor Day.

    News story: Olive Garden honors First Responders on Labor Day

    Rich, the gentleman in the center and an Olive Garden employee, was a victim in the recent Hanover/Penn arson spree. He was particularly thankful for the rapid response of crews when his occupied townhouse was struck by fire.

  • Broadway Crash With Confinement

    Broadway Crash With Confinement

     

    Firefighters and EMS dispatched and responded Saturday evening around 19:00 hours for a vehicle crash with confinement on Broadway near Keagy Avenue in Hanover Borough. Penn Township EMS Chief Smith arrived first and requested a door pop and bam cut on one of the cars. Engine 49-2 firefighter Wysocki used the battery operated and hydraulic rescue tools to free the confined victim. Minor fluids and glass debris on the roadway was cleared. Engine 46-1 left to handle a medical emergency assist at a local restaurant in Penn Township.

  • Supporting Hanover High Seniors

    Supporting Hanover High Seniors

     

    While returning from a helicopter landing call, Engine 49-2 was waved in by a group of Hanover High School Seniors having a car wash. Firefighters McDermitt and Wysocki wheeled the engine in and the class of 2016 set out scrubbing the engine. Deciding to help out the kids more, they returned to quarters and got Engine 46-3 and returned for the students to wash that one as well.  The seniors posed for photos with our firefighters all while wearing red plastic fire helmets. After the rigs were washed, the firefighters gave the students some hands on experience with some oft he tools of the trade. Firefighters McDermitt and Wysocki made the $25.00 donation out of their own pockets. They were told  by the students they matched what was donated all day by other patrons combined. Community service comes full circle some days, and today, our firefighters helped out our future generation by supporting their fundraising event.

    Photos by Hanover HS Students and Harrison Jones of the Evening Sun

  • Car Crashes Into Structure

    Car Crashes Into Structure

    Crews responded Friday morning for a passenger car into a house on Baltimore Street near O’Neal Street. A natural gas meter was struck and sheared off. One person transported by EMS for evaluation. Photo by Eric Miller and Hanover Evening Sun’s Lillian Reed

  • “Maintenance Monday”

    “Maintenance Monday”

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    Mondays in the Hanover and Penn Township Fire Department are typically reserved for vehicle and equipment maintenance. In addition to the other daily and weekly tasks the staff are tasked with, they perform routine weekly maintenance on the vehicles and equipment. This includes, but is not limited to: fluid checks, portable equipment checks, fixed equipment checks, aerial and pump exercising and a host of other routine checks. These checks allow for the equipment to be exercised and for maintenance issues to be dealt with. At a moment’s notice any piece of equipment in the HFD/PTFD fleet could be called into action. It is essential that this equipment is maintained in a state of readiness at all times. Below, FF/EMT Kopp checks the engine fluids on E49-1.

  • A-Shifters

    Firefighters Jason Kopp of Station 49 and firefighter Charlie Hale of Station 46 are all smiles after a quick Friday night fire at New York Wire Company. 

    Did they just discover they’re father and son?? Is that why such happy faces? 

  • Southside Crews Tackle Saturday Cleanup

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    Southside (FS49) fire and EMS crews took on the customary Saturday house chore of pulling all the fire and EMS apparatus out and hosing down/scrubbing/cleaning the apparatus bays. Mother Nature blessed the crews with an atypical August morning of low humidity and temperatures.