Grant Fire and Rescue

06/01/2026

MONTHLY REPORT FOR THE GRANT FIRE DEPT/PERKINS COUNTY AMBULANCE

For the month of May 2026, the Grant Fire Department and Perkins County Ambulance Responded to 26 incidents during the month. The May incidents were divided into 3 fire responses, 1 Weather event, and 22 EMS incidents which included 2 trauma responses, 9 medical incidents, 0 Cardiac situations, 5 long distance transfer events, 4 motor vehicle accidents, 0 Flight for Life deployments, and 2 other EMS incidents.

Training in May was grain bin entrapment and rescue.

05/22/2026

The Grant Fire Department partnered with the Venango Fire Department to conduct training exercises on grain bin extraction. We extend our gratitude to Frenchman Valley Coop for their support and to Bryan Kroeker for providing his trailer, which allowed us to facilitatethis training.

05/22/2026

Congratulations to Casandra Jooste on receiving the Firemanship Award!!!

05/03/2026

MONTHLY REPORT FOR THE GRANT FIRE DEPT/PERKINS COUNTY AMBULANCE

For the month of April 2026, the Grant Fire Department and Perkins County Ambulance Responded to 25 incidents during the month. It should be noted 12 of the incidents took place between April 20th and April 24th, April 22nd was a unique day where 6 different responses were dispatched on this particular day. The April incidents were divided into 9 fire responses, and 16 EMS incidents which included 0 trauma responses, 3 medical incidents, 0 Cardiac situations, 7 long distance transfer events, 0 motor vehicle accidents, 3 Flight for Life deployments, and 3 other EMS incidents.

Training in April was handling law enforcement medical situations and other legal situations; CPR refresher was given to those members needing to renew their training.

04/01/2026

MONTHLY REPORT FOR THE GRANT FIRE DEPT/PERKINS COUNTY AMBULANCE

For the 31 days in March a total of 35 responses were recorded for the Grant Fire Department and Perkins County Ambulance. The March incidents were divided into 12 fire responses and 23 EMS situations. EMS responses further break down into 6 medical incidents, 7 long distance transfer events, 2 motor vehicle accidents, 4 Flight for Life deployments, and 4 other EMS incident.

Training in March consisted of CPR recertification

The Grant Fire Department says a heartfelt and deeply appreciative thank you to everyone that provided food, snacks, beef jerky, bottled water, electrolyte fluids, etc. during the recent fire activity. Particular appreciation and special thanks is given to all that have provided monetary gifts given to the department for immediate usage in supply procurement and immediate expense needs. The members of the department have given nearly 1000 manhours in fire line work. Again, the department cannot extend its complete and total appreciation to you.

03/15/2026

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To all of you that have donated money, bottled water, energy drinks, jerky, snacks, The Grant Fire Department cannot express how much we appreciate your acts of kindness, The bottled water is such a blessing during the heat of the past 3 days and the energy drinks certainly give a boost at 2am the past three days., again thank you, we deeply appreciate all of your thoughtfulness

03/12/2026

Due to the wildfires across the area the Storm Spotter class scheduled for Thursday March 12 has been postponed. We will post a new date when we have one.

03/11/2026

Please join us.

Storm spotter training at the Grant Fire Station on Thursday. Training is provided by the National Weather Service out of North Platte and is both open and free to the public.

Our Spotter talks continue this week, with one talk in Grant. As always, these talks are free and open to the public! We hope to see you there! A list of additional training times and locations can be found at: https://www.weather.gov/lbf/2026StormSpotterSchedule

03/02/2026

MONTHLY REPORT FOR THE GRANT FIRE DEPT/PERKINS COUNTY AMBULANCE

For the month of February 2026, the Grant Fire Department and Perkins County Ambulance Responded to 23 incidents during the month. The February incidents were divided into 1 fire response, 4 trauma responses, 7 medical incidents, 2 Cardiac situations, 4 long distance transfer events, 3 motor vehicle accidents, 1 Flight for Life deployment, and 1 other EMS incident.

Training in January was Sepsis symptoms, causes, treatment provided by Apollo Medflight-Apollo Medical Transport. Separate training was wildland firefighting strategies and the annual Wildland Red Card Refresher training.

Reminder, there are no burn permits being issued.

Please consider helping a neighbor in need by joining the fire and ambulance department

03/02/2026

Effective March 1, 2026

The Grant Fire Department will not issue Burn Permits until the moisture situation improves!