The Quad County Firefighters Association held their annual fire school on April 12 at the Hazardous Materials Training Center in Waterloo. Photo by Larry Klodt.

May 1, 2025: Region 3 Arrowhead, 5 p.m. registration, 5-5:30 p.m. Advisory Committee meeting, 6-8 p.m. meeting.

   May 3-4, 2025: Kansas State Firefighters Association 2025 Fire School, Augusta Department of Public Safety.

   The Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) is a well-known term in the wildland firefighting community as well as in areas where wildfires are common occurrences; however, many communities and fire departments around the nation still do not understand what WUI is nor mitigation strategies to preserve life and proper

On March 26 at 3:57 p.m. the Red Oak Fire Department was dispatched to a vehicle fire in the 900 block of Oakwood Ave.

   Greetings Fellow Firefighters - I would like to start by saying thank you to everybody that attended the midyear meeting and banquet. It was a great weekend and the attendance was outstanding.

Norfolk Fire and Rescue took part in three days of extrication training at the end of March.

   The Battle Creek Fire Department responded to the intersection of Highway 40 and South Rockerville Rd, Unincorporated Pennington County, for a report of a Wildland Fire on Mar. 22, 2025 at 2:43 p.m.

The Quad County Firefighters Association held their annual fire school on April 12 at the Hazardous Materials Training Center in Waterloo. Photo by Larry Klodt.

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Springfield, Tyndall and Avon Fire Departments came together for something other than an emergency at the Springfield rodeo grounds on July 3. Firefighter teams competed in the calf dressing contest. Photo by Sheila Kremer of the Springfield Times.

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Springfield, Tyndall, and Avon fire departments came together for something other than an emergency at the Springfield rodeo grounds on July 3, 2014.  Firefighter teams from each department compete

York house burn

Fire departments from York, Waco and McCool Junction took part in a controlled burn to get rid of a structure that had partially burned in 2013. Photo by Kathy Barnes.

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