“Maintenance Monday”

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.