Monthly Archives: January 2007

A Good Friend of the Fire Service

At last week’s Hennepin County Fire Chief’s Association meeting a check was presented to the group by Fireman’s Fund Heritage. The check was in the amount of $11,838.50 and was the second time they have made a donation. The money is to support the county-wide fire investigation team (FIT) and their ongoing operations. The team [...]

In Class for the week

This week I am in class every day taking a National Fire Academy course. The course is a “Train the Trainer” class for handling complex emergency scenes. The two instructors from the National Fire Academy are top notch professionals and have been around since the original Incident Command System now in use was developed, impressive. [...]

Another Win, Win Situation

Over the past year the Fire Department has been selling some older fire trucks, specifically pumpers from 1988 and 1989. The trucks are being sold to make way for newer pumpers. The last of the older pumpers was sold a month or so ago to the Hokah Fire Department. Hokah is down in the southeastern [...]