Category: Rescue
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 …
Hauling & Lowering Systems
Today’s “A” shift training was a construction worker that fell and was saved by his safety belay line. Crews went over three different ways to remove this employee from this situation. Crews used a 4:1, 3:1, and a 3:1 piggy back haul systems to raise the construction worker and then used a figure 8 and …
Dog Rescue
Crews Were Called to Help a Dog Stuck Under a Porch. Lily was Rescued After Pulling up Carpet and Taking a Full Sheet of Marine Plywood. She Came Out on her own, as Soon as she saw light. She was Stuck. 1 Opossum was Found Dead Under the Porch, Probably why Lily Went to Investigate. …
Elevator Rescue Operations Class Kicks Off In Hanover/Penn
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 …
Firemen Rescue Pigeon In the Borough
Hanover Fire Department responded to assist the Hanover Police Department with rescuing a pigeon stuck in some webbing on an abandoned building on Frederick Street Thursday morning. Acting shift commander Jim Startzel climbed the 24 foot extension ladder to free the bird. Firefighters are happy to report, once freed, the pigeon immediately took flight …
Shift Calendar – 2020
