Midwest Firefighter

     As our world looks for new forms of cleaner energy, our rural departments find themselves responding to calls we would have never considered 25 years ago.

     Greetings IFA membership, Happy holidays, hope this finds you well. Back on Nov.

     An aerial view taken on Monday, Nov. 15, of the Buffalo Creek wildfire south of Gering. The fire started on Nov.

     By the time you read this, the annual meeting of the NSVFA will be in the history books. As usual, our hosts at the Chadron Fire Department outdid themselves.

     Black Hills District School was held Oct. 30^th at the Central States Fair Grounds.

     The Box Elder Volunteer Fire Department responded to a report of smoke visible, issuing from a single-story residential structure in the 1400 block of Halter Ct Rural Box Elder, SD, on Nov.

     The Thanksgiving feast is now in your rearview mirror. We can stop, relax, and say to ourselves, “I’m never going to eat that much turkey again.” Ok, we know that won’t happen.

I’m going to get a little Hallmark this month. But I wanted to correlate it to us in our fire service career.