South Dakota Fire School

   Fire school is just a week or so away. I hope you have gotten your registration in, so you have taken advantage of the early bird discounts, and 100% Department Membership. It doesn’t matter, for the amount of training, comradery, and opportunities to meet and learn new things, it is a bargain. If you look at other statewide organizations, their registration costs can be over $100 per person. Don’t wait, go online register right now. You can come back and finish reading this later. 

   I was wondering just how many statewide organizations have continuously had a yearly meeting. We are approaching 150 years of fire schools. Just a couple of times have we not had fire school, so that’s pretty remarkable and we should all take a lot of pride in that fact. The fire service in South Dakota is strong and viable. We all know some departments do struggle with new members, but the overall is good. Having completed the 2023 membership dues, most departments kept the same number of firefighters, some added and of course some dropped firefighters, numbers remained pretty steady. 

   Once again there are a lot of articles in this month’s paper. Many will be acted on at the general membership meetings either on Friday morning or Saturday afternoon. So please take a look at them, the draft membership meeting minutes from both June and September of 2022, the year-end financial reports for the various accounts the association have. And of course, the President of the SDFA is up for election to a three-year term. 

   I’ll close now to leave room for all the other important information. But before I go, I’ll make one more pitch for someone who would be willing to step up and be a part of the great Firefighters Association organization. You will have a feeling of making a difference and helping all the firefighters of our State. 

   Thank you, be safe.

Denny Gorton,

SDFA Past President

 

 

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