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Firefighters from Joe Foss Field and South Dakota Air National Guard Crash Fire Rescue perform air rescue pit fire training. Joe Foss Field Station Captain Lonnie Albers celebrated his final pit fire training after 39 years of fire service as an Air Force, National Guard, career, and volunteer firefighter.

Oct. 1, 2020: Scotts Bluff County Mutual Aid Association meeting, Mitchell Fire Department.

Oct. 5-10, 2020: SFM – Training Division Course: Command and Control of Target Hazards (N0314), Omaha Fire Department Training Facility, Omaha.

“Cutting Tree”

How many different tools do you have available to cut with? We will tend to fall back on the use of tools that we are familiar with. We will likely be safer using a tool we are comfortable using. This tool is not always the best one to perform the job. On our department we are blessed with many choices of tools.

Grand opening and ribbon cutting

Happy Fall IFA Members! As promised in my September article, I would like to provide everyone with an update pertaining to our very successful Aug. 12, 2020 Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for the new Fire Service Training Bureau facilities, located at the Camp Dodge Joint Maneuver Training Center in Johnston, IA.

A Nebraska Game and Parks Commission fire rig guards the perimeter as the wildfire burns in the Wildcat Hills near McGrew on Aug. 28. Photo by Justin Powell.

Crews respond to wildfires in the Panhandle

Visitors to public lands and other recreational sites in the Nebraska Panhandle are being advised of wildfires in the region, and are being asked to be especially cautious because the heightened risk for fires brought on by hot and dry weather.

Accident involving ambulance

An ambulance traveling southbound on I-29 crossed the center median and struck a northbound tractor-trailer. A 29-year-old female paramedic was ejected from the passenger seat of the ambulance and was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the ambulance was taken to the hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.

Box Elder structure fire held to a single alarm

The Box Elder Volunteer Fire Department responded to a report of smoke visible in a residential structure at 125 West Gate Rd, Box Elder, SD.

First arriving firefighters found a free burning fire with a heavy smoke condition, issuing from the single-story residential structure.

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Renew your membership

Mon, 08/31/2020 - 10:30 admin

Nebraska Fire and Rescue members of the NSVFA; Welcome to the September issue of the Nebraska Firefighter and the last issue you will receive unless you renew your membership prior to Sept.

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Improving skills

Mon, 08/31/2020 - 10:28 admin

Despite temperatures in the 90s, crews from Town and Country Fire Department (Woonsocket) spent the day improving their skills.

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Chancellor conducts controlled burn

Mon, 08/31/2020 - 10:26 admin

Chancellor Fire, with mutual aid from Lennox Fire, Parker Fire and Davis Fire conducted a controlled burn of a barn northeast of Chancellor on the evening of July 20.

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Wildfire

Mon, 08/31/2020 - 10:24 admin

Interior Volunteer Fire Department and the Bureau of Indian Affairs - Forestry & Wildland Fire Management - Pine Ridge Agency, are currently responding to wildland, approximately 20 acres

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Heartbreaking month

Mon, 08/31/2020 - 10:22 admin

This has been a heart-breaking past month. In July we lost two South Dakota Firefighters to motor vehicle accidents. Blake Williams with Piedmont and Scott Thompson with Estelline.