VIDEO: The Belle Fourche Volunteer Fire Department celebrated the end of National Fire Prevention Week Sunday by hosting a free breakfast for community members. Firefighters cooked up hundreds of pancakes throughout the day. โWe do this every year,โ Assistant Fire Chief Theodore Jeitz said. โWe bring about 350 people in for the pancake feed a year just to help the community out, tell them thank you for helping us out.โ
After fighting a landfill fire in March, Jeitz said the team enjoyed a relatively quiet year with few major fires to address. Still, the firefighters train consistently in case they are called upon in a disastrous situation. The pancake feed takes place each year on the Sunday following National Fire Prevention Week.
