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.

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By Scott Meinecke

     I’d like to thank everyone that attended the mid-year meeting this year. We had a great meeting and a good time at the hospitality and dinner that evening.

     What does the Survey say? You will only know if you fill it out.

Members of the Garretson, Renner, Brandon, Valley Springs and Hills, MN, fire departments responded to a barn fire that ignited a large grass and tree fire in Eastern Minnehaha County.

Members of the Garretson and Brandon Fire Departments work to protect and exposure during a large debris pile fire.

     The South Dakota Firefighters Association, on behalf of all the firefighters of South Dakota, wish to express their sincerest condolences to the Steven Acke

I     At 0417 Oakland Fire was dispatched and Carson Fire for mutual aid to a reported structure fire.