Ness County Fire District #1

09/12/2026

05/20/2026

Thank you! Sheryl MacNair for you generous donation of a variety of personal care products! Chapstick, eye drops, nasal spray, wet wipes, sunscreen, and cooling towels. They will be very useful to us!

05/17/2026

Over the past month we have joined a newly formed wild land task force consisting of Hays Fire, Great Bend Fire, and Larned fire, contracted from the Kansas State Fire Marshal’s Office. On May 14th at approximately 4:45 pm we received a call and got put on standby. At approximately 6:00 pm the task force was activated. We sent 1 quick attack brush truck from the Ness City station and met with Larned fire in Jetmore. From there we traveled to Ford County Fire and EMS Station 1 to check in. From there we were deployed on our first assignment in Clarke County north of Ashland. After a few hours we had a change in deployment and our task force got sent to Meade county. Our brush truck was out of station approximately 64 hours assisting with the wild fires. We had 3 groups of 2 Firefighters working approximately 16 hour shifts and 1 of the 3 groups ran 2 shifts. We got the opportunity to work with multiple agency’s from the great state of Kansas. At approximately 11:20 am May 17th our brush truck arrived back to its home station in Ness City, the truck was cleaned, inspected for any issues and promptly put back in service on call. See comment for helicopter video!

05/06/2026

Big shoutout to Karen and Jimmy from Ford County Fire for taking their time out of their busy schedules to come teach us a CPR class.