Blaze Publications

On Wednesday, July 19, emergency services from around the area were at Forestburg Farmers Elevator for a pre-incident planning session. The purpose of this event was to learn about the business and discuss how to handle emergency events that may occur, like fire, grain engulfment and high angle rescues. While there, a refresher grain engulfment rescue was held.

Sept. 7-10, 2023: Iowa Firefighters Convention, Iowa Falls.

Sept. 9-10, 2023: Fire School, Grainfield, KS.

Sept. 10, 2023: South Dakota 9-11 “Let’s Roll” Memorial Ride to honor the fallen heroes, 8 a.m. starts at Spearfish Station #1.

“Passing The Torch”

Since 2004 I have been honored to write the monthly training drill for the Iowa Firefighter. I began when Iowa passed the 24-hour training requirement to assist departments in meeting these needs. I am often asked where the ideas come from and have I repeated any.

Barn fire

On August 10, about 10:10 pm, Waterloo Fire Rescue was dispatched to the area of Burton Avenue and Airline Hwy for a reported structure fire.

Rapid response by Hill City Volunteer Firefighters Contain Fire to a Single Alarm

Hill City Volunteer Fire Department responded to a reported fire in the 200 block of Railroad Ave, Hill City, Pennington County, SD on Aug. 7, 2023 at 6:07 a.m.

First arriving volunteer firefighters found a fire burning with moderate smoke conditions, in a cement containment pit.

Museum director

My name is Jennifer Slater. If we have not had the opportunity to meet yet, I wanted to take this time to reintroduce myself to you.

Attend NVFC summit

Thirteen Nebraska firefighters attended the National Volunteer Fire Council’s Health & Safety Training Summit and Recruitment & Retention Experience in Oklahoma City on June 23^rd and 24^th.

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North Platte to host annual conference Oct. 16-18

Tue, 07/29/2014 - 16:40 admin

Fire and Rescue members of the NSVFA:

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This photo shows Tanker 463 parked at the Valentine SEAT base in 2013.

Smokey Sez

Tue, 07/29/2014 - 16:06 admin

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IFA convention coming up in Grinnell

Tue, 07/29/2014 - 16:01 admin

I hope you are all having a good summer so far. I’m not sure what happened but it sure went by fast!

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Passing firefighting skills to the next generation

Tue, 07/29/2014 - 15:40 admin

Summer is drawing to a close. The Iowa State Fair is just around the corner and convention, as well.

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Carlisle house burn

Tue, 07/29/2014 - 15:37 admin

A Carlisle house was burned as part of a training exercise on June 29. Firefighters from Carlisle, Hartford, Northern Warren, Moravia and Pleasant Hill took part.