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The Holmen Area Fire Department is teaming up with area fire departments to celebrate the 14th year of the “Keep the Wreath Green” campaign to raise awareness of the increased fire dangers that exist during the holiday season.  HAFD has placed a wreath near the front entrance of the fire station decorated with all green light bulbs.  A single white light bulb amongst the green bulbs will be displayed to honor firefighters who have died in the line of duty and a reminder of all the men and women in the armed forces who are serving our country throughout the world.  If any one of the participating communities suffers a structure fire between November 29th and January 1st, each participating department will replace one green bulb with one red bulb.  Please read the attached media release for more information.

Media Release for November 26, 2024 Village of Holmen school bus crash into a house at 301 State Street, Holmen, WI.

The Holmen Area Fire Department (HAFD) Board of Directors, with support from the Town of Holland and Village of Holmen governmental boards have selected Wendel Five Bugles Design to move forward with the HAFD facility needs assessment and station location analysis.  This study is anticipated to take 12 weeks to complete once started with a proposed cost of $25,500.00.  HAFD is excited to be partnering with the experts at Wendel Five Bugles Design to not only help HAFD better meet our facility needs for today, but also position HAFD for success in the future commensurate with the continued growth of our served communities. 

Media Release for October 20, 2024 Town of Holland Trailer Fire at Whispering Pines Campground, N8905 U.S. Highway 53, Holmen, WI.

You may notice that some of the Holmen Area Fire Department crew members are wearing blue t-shirts with pink and white printing instead of the typical red and white printing.  In exchange for a donation to the Gundersen Medical Foundation, these crew members get to wear pink on their blue duty t-shirt for the month of October in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month and to celebrate survivors and honor those who lost the battle to breast cancer.

Two hafd firefighters showing front of breast cancer awareness t-shirts.

Two hafd firefighters showing front and back of breast cancer awareness t-shirts.

The Holmen Area Fire Department (HAFD) is inviting you to join us at our 2024 Fire Prevention Open House. This event is free and open to the public.

DATE – Saturday, October 26, 2024

TIME – 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.

LOCATION – Holmen Area Fire Department, 710 S. Main St., Holmen, WI 54636

Help us spread the 2024 National Fire Prevention Week’s campaign theme of “Smoke alarms: Make them work for you!”  Guests at this free event will be able to meet HAFD firefighters and participate in activities that include:

Fire Extinguisher Training

Fire Gear Demonstrations

Truck Tours

Station Tours

Holmen’s own Cozy Coffee will be in the fire house with coffee and goodies for purchase.

For more information, call 608-526-9363 or email rostreng@holmenfire.com

HAFD would like to welcome McKay Wolsey as our newest full-time Firefighter/EMT.  McKay started with HAFD on July 2, 2024 and is assigned to C shift.  HAFD is now fully staffed to the currently approved level of four full-time firefighters on-duty every day.  Welcome McKay!

The Holmen Area Fire Department (HAFD) has a renewed web presence
after a hiatus from maintaining an official website. HAFD has partnered with Vision Design
Group, Inc from Winona, MN to launch a new website.

The purpose of the new website is to keep the citizens and visitors of our HAFD communities
informed through more accessible fire service-related information. As this is a renewed web
presence, changes will be made to the website over the next several months.

For more information about the Holmen Area Fire Department and to view the website, please
visit www. holmenfire.com.

The Holmen Area Fire Department Board of Directors have rescheduled the May Board Meeting for Wednesday May 29, 2024.  The meeting will be held at the Town of Holland Town Hall starting at 6:30 pm.

Due to the heightened potential for severe weather this afternoon into this evening, the Holmen Area Fire Department Board of Directors have canceled tonight’s Board Meeting.  A rescheduled meeting date and time will be posted.

Town of Holland Structure Fire at W6632 County Rd T, Holmen, W
Media release for the April 13, 2024

We would like to welcome Caden Douglas as our newest full-time Firefighter/EMT. Caden joins us with 5 years of medic experience as a Combat medic in the United States Army. Caden is assigned to A shift. Welcome Caden!