IAFF Local #2045

Category: Rescue

  • Second wave of flooding hits Hanover Area

    Second wave of flooding hits Hanover Area

     

     

     

  • 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.

  • Hauling & Lowering Systems

    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 rappel rack to lower the victim to the ground where Emergency Medical Services took over patient care!

  • 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. 

    Crew Involved (L to R) M. Bankert, J. Startzel, R. Angel. Not Shown are J. Cromer, B. Cromer, S. Kirwin, R.Kinsey 

    Mommy Lily is Back With her Puppies! 

  • 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. 

  • Firemen Rescue Pigeon In the Borough

    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 and flew away.