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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Barn fire

     Five area fire departments battled wind chills in the single digits and used more than 80,000 gallons of water to extinguish a barn fire north of Grinnell o

Avon car fire

On Dec. 6, members of the Avon Fire Department responded to a car fire at a farm southwest of Avon. The fire was quickly extinguished and nearby structures were not damaged.

Yankton fire museum

Yankton firefighters, along with the retired firefighters, gave the department’s two antique trucks a little push to their new home at station #2 on Oct. 3 during the Old Timers Banquet.

Apartment fire

Pierre Fire Department crews were busy the last couple weeks of November. A deck fire call came in about 6 a.m. on Nov. 19 at the Edgewater Apartments.

Hill City burn

Darlene Sand took this photo of the Hill City prescribed burn on Nov. 2 as they were coming out of Custer on Highway 16 heading towards Rapid City.

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