Midwest Firefighter

Firefighters from the Tecumseh Fire District conducted a controlled burn for training on Saturday morning, May 2.

     Usually I am sitting at Fonner Park in Grand Island writing my June article for the Nebraska Firefighter watching and helping the Nebraska State Fire School setting things up and getting ready

Members of Black Hawk, Box Elder, New Underwood, North Haines, Rapid Valley, and Whispering Pines Fire Departments took part in a prescribed burn on the afternoon of 8 May in rural Meade County.  T

     No State Fire School this year. Simple statement and only a couple times in the past 135+ years has there not been a fire school. Well fear not. The Board of the SD Firefighters Assn.

     Normally in my June article, I would be reminding everyone to get signed up for the remaining open classes and check the schedule for the weekend events of fire school.

     At the end of April we should have all been together in Topeka for our annual conference but, instead, we gathered by Zoom.

   Interesting Times. What more can you say. This past few months has been a time like no other in recent memory. Again, the Fire Service has been challenged and we have risen to that challenge.

     As many of you know, the Minnesota State Fire Department Association’s 145^th Annual Conference and Fire School, originally scheduled for April 23-25, 2020 in Breezy Point, MN has be