Links to Station web pages:
Dover Township Fire Co. Yoe Fire Co. Hanover Fire Dept. Shrewsbury Fire Co.
Team History Photo Gallery Officers Incident Log Information Links
Tired of the same old training regiment?
Want to prove that your team is ready to respond on a complex trench rescue?
Our solution!
Technical rescue teams will exercise their skills real time with realistic challenges in various trenches using their own people and their own equipment. Time will be your enemy! Included in this exercise will be environmental and logistical challenges for your command structure and working part of the time in the dark. Night operations will create new and exciting challenges. Space will be limited so secure your spot now!
Light dinner and snacks included as part of the registration fee for the class. T-shirts and collectable York County ATR Trench coins are available for purchase. Location is in Spring Valley Park, Exit 8 East off of I- 83. For more information call (717) 887-8094.
York County ATR Team Utility 9 & USAR trailer; Heavy Rescues 61, 46, 9, 36; Collapse 36
The York County ATR Team was formed in the mid 1990's to begin a structured approach to technical rescues in York County Pennsylvania. The team is comprised of four companies: Hanover Fire Department, Dover Township Fire Company, Yoe Fire Company , and Shrewsbury Volunteer Fire Company.
The York County ATR Team trains yearly in the following disciplines:
• Building Collapse
• Confined Space Rescue
• Trench Rescue
• Rope and High Angle Rescue
• Water Rescue (Swift and Flood)
• Surface Ice Rescue (Single and Multiple Patient)
When the team is dispatched, trained personnel on apparatus from each of the departments proceed to the emergency. The first arriving ATR unit will report to the Incident Commander and begin our interface with the personnel on location. We work hand-in-hand with on scene personnel to complete the technical rescue. The ATR team has a duty officer assigned, rotating each quarter between the member stations. The Duty Officer coordinates personnel and equipment resources en-route to an incident and is the direct link between the team and the Command Staff. This officer functions as part of the IMT and provides technical expertise to the IC throughout the rescue incident.
The team is an all volunteer organization receiving funding for operations, training and equipment largely by each of the four member stations. Our annual fundraiser, Trench Weekend, helps with our expenses and supplements equipment purchases for the team. The York County ATR Team is a local county resource within the USAR structure responding to incidents with other local USAR elements in a multi-county response area in the Pennsylvania South Central Region.