An old deteriorating house was the only building left standing on a farm site in Barber Township. But the house, which hadnโt been lived in for a number of years, still proved to be valuable when it was used to train area firefighters on how to fight a house fire.
On Sept. 20, members of fire departments from Delavan, Easton, Minnesota Lake, Frost, Blue Earth and Winnebago gathered at the site located one mile south of Highway 109 between Delavan and Easton to receive training on fighting a house fire. Ryan Bromeland, a safety officer and lieutenant with the Delavan Fire Department, shares one of the goals of the event was to help the firefighters keep up on their training for going into a fire.
โIt also provided us with the opportunity to work with other mutual aid fire departments and to practice our pump operations,โ Bromeland says. โThe main focus was how to do things correctly and safely.โ Preparing for the practice burn was a large part of the process.
