Members from Hartford and Carlisle Fire Department participated in high angle rope rescue training on July 25. This training was made possible with the help of Professional Rescue Innovations and Iowa Fire Service Training Bureau.

   Sept. 6, 2026: Tactics on Tap, Watertown.

   Sept. 8, 2026: Region 12-Minnesota Valley, St. Clair, meal served at 7 p.m., meeting starts at 7:30 p.m.

   Sept. 9-13, 2026: IFA Convention, Manchester, IA.

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.

A fire that destroyed most of the Agri Star Meat and Poultry processing plant has left more than 600 workers without jobs as community members are organizing relief efforts.

Members from Hartford and Carlisle Fire Department participated in high angle rope rescue training on July 25. This training was made possible with the help of Professional Rescue Innovations and Iowa Fire Service Training Bureau.

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Barn fire

     Five area fire departments battled wind chills in the single digits and used more than 80,000 gallons of water to extinguish a barn fire north of Grinnell o

Avon car fire

On Dec. 6, members of the Avon Fire Department responded to a car fire at a farm southwest of Avon. The fire was quickly extinguished and nearby structures were not damaged.

Yankton fire museum

Yankton firefighters, along with the retired firefighters, gave the department’s two antique trucks a little push to their new home at station #2 on Oct. 3 during the Old Timers Banquet.

Apartment fire

Pierre Fire Department crews were busy the last couple weeks of November. A deck fire call came in about 6 a.m. on Nov. 19 at the Edgewater Apartments.

Hill City burn

Darlene Sand took this photo of the Hill City prescribed burn on Nov. 2 as they were coming out of Custer on Highway 16 heading towards Rapid City.

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