In December 2024 and January 2025, we examined the four attributes of smoke: velocity, volume, density, and color. Understanding each attribute is important, but firefighters must also know how to combine those observations into a quick, repeatable size-up.

     Nebraska Fire and Rescue NSVFA Members, by the time you read this, summer will almost be over and we will be moving into fall.

     I hope everyone has been enjoying lots of fun summer activities with family and friends.  Kathy and I sure have, especially with all the grandkids!

Yankton firefighters responded to a unoccupied mobile home fire Monday morning, Aug. 17, at 1:51 a.m. on Yankton’s east side. The fire was discovered by the police department on patrol.

     If you have read this column long enough you know that I at times have a kind of warped sense of humor.

Lightning struck the Main Street Cinemas building in the 100 block of North Main Street in Mt. Pleasant early on the morning of July 16, but smoke was not noticed until around noon.

     The 22^nd Annual Memorial Service will be held Sunday, June 12, 2016 at 10:30 a.m.

IBy Scott Meinecke