Published September 15. 2026 03:09PM<\/p>\n
At the Sept. 2 Hanover Township, Lehigh County, Council meeting, Han-Le-Co Volunteer Fire Rescue Department Assistant Fire Chief William Hummel announced to council that Fire Chief Keith DeAngelis resigned. No reason was given at that time.<\/p>\n
Hummel noted he retains the assistant fire chief position but is also the acting interim fire chief until the department completes the process selecting the next chief.<\/p>\n
After the meeting, department board of directors President John Wechsler noted DeAngelis was stepping aside due to increased employment responsibilities and wanting more downtime with his family.<\/p>\n
Wechsler said the selection of a new fire chief is expected to be completed by the end of 2026.<\/p>\n
DeAngelis actively served the community for decades. He marked a milestone in December 2016 when he was awarded a life membership for achieving 20 years of dedicated service to the fire department. For nearly all of those 20 years, he served continuous roles as a fire line officer.<\/p>\n
A fire line officer is a frontline supervisor, typically holding the rank of lieutenant or captain, who directly leads and manages a firefighting crew at the station and on the emergency scene. DeAngelis assumed these supervisory roles, culminating in achieving the role of the fire chief.<\/p>\n
Under DeAngelis\u2019 leadership, the department handled everything from routine fire suppression and hazardous material situations to field medical assists, reportedly including helping to successfully deliver a newborn baby.<\/p>\n
DeAngelis prioritized a safety-first culture by modernizing standard operating procedures and drilling his firefighters on the \u201cEveryone Goes Home\u201d protocol.<\/p>\n
The \u201cEveryone Goes Home\u201d initiative is a national firefighter safety campaign developed by the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation. Its primary objective is to reduce preventable line-of-duty deaths and injuries across the fire service. The core of the program relies on the 16 firefighter life safety initiatives, which provide a comprehensive blueprint for structural, cultural and behavioral safety changes within fire departments.<\/p>\n
Ordinance 675, bill 2026-07, was approved for the solicitation of bids for a contract regarding the 2026 sanitary sewer and storm sewer rehabilitation project. Its approval, in an amount to not exceed $1,000,000, is subject to change orders and unit price adjustments.<\/p>\n
Council voted to authorize the township manager to sign a proposal with Tu-Way Communication for two years of system update maintenance and priority service response not to exceed $20,000.<\/p>\n
Council approved the payment of bills through Sept. 2, in the amount of $106,182.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published September 15. 2026 03:09PM At the Sept. 2 Hanover Township, Lehigh County, Council meeting, Han-Le-Co Volunteer Fire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-286705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}