Water application drill at the Iowa Firefighters Association Convention in Manchester on Sept. 11.

   Oct. 2-4, 2026: SDFA Fall Conference, Rapid City, featuring Tom Merrill “Forged in Fire.”

   Oct. 3, 2026: Pheasant Country Fire Conference, Yankton.

Oct. 3-4, 2026: Fire School, Coffeyville, KS.

For years, many firefighters were taught a simple rule: don’t open the nozzle until you see fire.

Firefighters were mopping up after a wildfire started east of Chadron Monday, Sept. 7. The Chadron Volunteer Fire Department says lightning sparked the fire.

Water application drill at the Iowa Firefighters Association Convention in Manchester on Sept. 11.

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Dairy fire

On March 21 at 15:44 hours, both Scarville Fire Department and Lake Mills Fire Department were paged out for a tractor on fire inside a metal machine shed on the Sprecher Dairy Farm.

Creekside fire

On Friday, April 5 at 4 p.m., Batesland Volunteer Fire Department was requested by Oglala Sioux Tribe Emergency Management to respond to Manderson to assist with the rapidly spreading Creek

Greeley County Kansas fire school

Upcoming events

   Apr. 4-6, 2024: Mid-Year Meeting, Hilton Garden Inn, 7213 Nordic Drive, Cedar Falls.

Apr. 5, 6 & 7, 2024: Kansas Annual Conference, Salina, KS.

Hudson fires

On March 12, around 2:15 p.m. Hudson Fire Rescue was dispatched to a field fire in the 8800 block of Kimball in rural Waterloo.

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