Bonduel Area Fire Department

10/07/2026

🔥 FIRE PREVENTION WEEK 2026 🔥

Today's reminder: LOOK AT YOUR CHARGERS.

This year's Fire Prevention Week theme is "Charge into Fire Safety™: Safe Charging Is a Superpower."

Take a few minutes today and check the chargers around your home, garage, and workplace.

Is the cord damaged or frayed?

Is the charger getting unusually hot?

Are you using the correct charger for the device?

Are phones, tablets, or other devices charging on a bed, couch, or other soft surface?

Are batteries swollen, cracked, leaking, or damaged?

If something doesn't look right, stop using it.

Lithium-ion batteries power a huge part of our everyday lives, but damaged batteries and improper charging can create a serious fire hazard.

Charge on a hard, stable surface. Keep devices away from anything that can burn. Use manufacturer-approved charging equipment.

A fire is a bad time to find out that $10 charger wasn't worth saving a few bucks.

🔋 CHARGE SMART. CHARGE SAFE. 🔥

Bonduel Area Fire Department
Serving the Village of Bonduel and Town of Hartland

10/05/2026

🔥 FIRE PREVENTION WEEK 2026 🔥

"Charge into Fire Safety™: Safe Charging Is a Superpower."

October 4-10 is Fire Prevention Week, and this year we're focusing on something found in nearly every home: rechargeable lithium-ion batteries.

Phones, tablets, laptops, power tools, toys, e-bikes, scooters, and many other devices rely on these batteries. When a battery is damaged, improperly charged, or paired with the wrong charger, it can overheat, catch fire, or even explode.

🔋 CHARGE SMART. CHARGE SAFE.

Use the charging cord and equipment recommended by the manufacturer.

Charge devices on a hard, flat surface. Keep them off beds, couches, pillows, and other materials that can burn.

Keep charging devices away from exits and escape routes.

Stop using a battery if you notice excessive heat, swelling, leaking, an unusual odor, or a change in shape.

Unplug devices once they are fully charged.

Never ignore a damaged battery.

Fire prevention starts before the tones drop. Take a few minutes this week to look around your home, garage, and workplace. Pay attention to what you are charging, where you are charging it, and what equipment you are using.

Safe charging is a simple habit that can prevent a serious fire.

🔥 Charge into Fire Safety. Safe Charging Is a Superpower. 🔋

Bonduel Area Fire Department
Serving the Village of Bonduel and Town of Hartland

09/19/2026

Due to the rain Thedastar and Eagle 3 will not be coming today. We will not be doing the demonstrations today due to rain and low turnout numbers for the founders Day event. You can still come and visit us and pick up your raffle tickets.

09/17/2026

YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A FIREFIGHTER TODAY.

You have to be willing to become one.

The Bonduel Area Fire Department is looking for people from our community who are willing to train, work hard, and answer when someone needs help.

We are a paid-on-call fire department. Our firefighters have regular jobs, families, responsibilities, and lives outside the firehouse. When the pager goes off, they leave those things behind and respond for their neighbors.

You do not need previous fire service experience. We will train you. What we need from you is commitment.

This job requires time. It requires training. It requires physical work. There will be calls at inconvenient times. There will be nights when you would rather stay home. There will also be moments when the work you put in directly changes the outcome for someone having one of the worst days of their life.

We serve roughly 2,300 people across 36 square miles with 25 paid-on-call firefighters. We want to add more people who are ready to carry that responsibility.

If you live in the Village of Bonduel or Town of Hartland and have ever wondered whether you could do this, come talk to us.

You don't need to know everything.

You need to be willing to learn.

You need to show up.

You need to do the work.

The firehouse has a place for the right people.

09/12/2026

Today, Firefighter Jenna Kerkhoff and Firefighter Keegan Lynch proudly represented the Bonduel Area Fire Department at the Pierce 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb.

They climbed in honor of the 343 FDNY firefighters who made the ultimate sacrifice on September 11, 2001.

Twenty-five years later, we still remember their names, their courage, and the sacrifice they made while answering the call.

Jenna and Keegan carried that memory with them every step of the climb today.

We are proud to have them represent Bonduel Area Fire Department and proud to see the next generation of firefighters taking an active role in keeping the promise we made 25 years ago.

We will never forget. 🇺🇸

Great job, Jenna and Keegan. You represented BAFD well.

09/11/2026

Twenty-five years ago, America watched the unthinkable unfold.

On September 11, 2001, 2,977 innocent people were killed in the terrorist attacks on our nation.

Among them were 343 members of the FDNY.

They knew what was happening above them.

They saw people running out.

And they went in.

Firefighters climbed stairwells carrying tools, hose, medical equipment, and the weight of a responsibility they had sworn to accept. Police officers, EMS personnel, Port Authority officers, military members, dispatchers, and ordinary citizens also ran toward danger, helped strangers, and refused to leave others behind.

Twenty-five years have passed.

For many of us in the fire service, September 11 shaped what it meant to wear the uniform. For others now serving, 9/11 happened before they were born.

That makes remembering even more important.

The responsibility to remember now belongs to us.

We must tell their stories.

We must teach the next generation why 343 is more than a number.

We must remember the thousands who came home from Ground Zero carrying injuries and illnesses that would take their lives years later.

We must remember the families who said goodbye that morning and never got another hello.

We must remember a fire service that answered one of the darkest moments in American history by doing exactly what firefighters have always been expected to do.

They went.

They climbed.

They searched.

They helped people get out.

And many never came back down.

Today, the members of the Bonduel Area Fire Department remember every life taken on September 11, 2001, every responder who made the ultimate sacrifice, and every responder we have lost since from 9/11-related illness.

Twenty-five years later, their sacrifice still carries a responsibility for every firefighter who puts on the gear.

Know your job.
Train for the moment you hope never comes.
Take care of the people beside you.
And when people need you, be ready to go.

We will remember them.

September 11, 2001
Never Forget.

09/11/2026

September 10, 2001.

For most Americans, it was an ordinary Monday.

People went to work. Children went to school. Families ate dinner. Firefighters reported for duty. Police officers started their shifts. Paramedics and EMTs answered calls.

At firehouses across New York City, firefighters checked their apparatus, trained, cooked meals, laughed with each other, and prepared for another tour.

Nobody knew what tomorrow would demand of them.

Nobody knew that 343 FDNY firefighters were living their final full day.

Nobody knew that thousands of families were spending their final evening with someone they loved.

Nobody knew that the New York City skyline was about to change forever.

Nobody knew that the fire service was about to experience a loss that would be carried for generations.

September 10 reminds us of something September 11 made painfully clear.

There is no guarantee of another shift.

There is no guarantee of another meal around the firehouse table.

There is no guarantee you will get another opportunity to tell someone what they mean to you.

And there is no guarantee that the call you answer tomorrow will be anything like the calls you answered today.

Twenty-five years later, some of the firefighters wearing the uniform today were not even alive when those 343 firefighters reported for their final tours.

That makes our responsibility greater, not smaller.

We tell their stories.

We remember their names.

We teach the next generation what happened.

We honor those who climbed while thousands came down.

Tonight, remember September 10.

Remember the ordinary day before the world changed.

Tomorrow, we remember September 11, 2001.

We remember the 2,977 lives taken.

We remember the 343.

We remember those who have died from 9/11-related illnesses in the years since.

And we remember the families who have carried that loss for 25 years.

From all of us at the Bonduel Area Fire Department, never forget what was lost, never forget who answered the call, and never allow another generation to forget.

September 10, 2001.

They didn't know what tomorrow would bring.

Neither do we.

09/02/2026

** Update: Eagle 3 will be arriving at 1PM unless there are any emergency responses.**

Join us during Bonduel Founders Day for the Bonduel Area Fire Department Annual Open House!

Stop at the fire station on Saturday, September 19, starting at 9:00 AM. Meet our firefighters and local EMS personnel, tour the station, see the equipment, and watch live fire extinguisher and vehicle extrication demonstrations.

ThedaStar is scheduled to arrive at 11:30 AM, followed by Eagle 3 at 1:00 PM. Helicopter appearances depend on emergency response availability.

Our Christmas raffle tickets will also officially go on sale.

Bring the family and see what your local emergency responders do, how we train, and the equipment we depend on to serve our community.

Bonduel Area Fire Department
201 S. 1st Street

07/07/2026

**LOCATED**
**SILVER ALERT**

Update * subject has been located

***silver alert***
Rodney Jensen
84 years of age
5'9' tall. 158lbs
Bald w/ hazel eyes
Last seen wearing a black polo shirt with tan shorts and white shoes left on foot. Was last seen on Rocky Ridge Lane in the Town of Belle Plaine. Unknown direction of travel, but has hitchhiked before and could be in the city of Shawano. Please contact the Shawano sheriff's office at 715-526-3111 if You have any information on his whereabouts

07/04/2026

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!