Heart of the Lakes Fire Summit

09/02/2026

We are just over 3 weeks away!
Registration is MBFTE reimbursable!

Firefighters, officers, and fire service leaders—this is one you DON’T want to miss!

Join us in Alexandria, Minnesota for three days of high-impact training, practical tactics, and lessons from firefighters who have been in the fight.

Friday & Saturday Lectures Include:
- Run to the Sound of the Guns
- Engine Company Operations at Apartment Fires
- The Mayday Mindset: “The Path to Mastery”
- FFRS: From the Survey to the Streets

Sunday H.O.T.
- Engine Co. Tactics For Limited Staffing
- Irons Ready

This summit is built around real-world fireground operations, leadership, decision-making, and tactics you can take back to your department.

📍 Alexandria Hotel & Conference Center
5637 MN-29, Alexandria, MN 56308

Bring your crew. Bring your questions. Bring the mindset to get better.

🔥 Train hard. Stay ready. Go home.

https://firenuggets.regfox.com/26-hotlfs

08/27/2026

🚨 ONLY 4 WEEKS AWAY! 🚨

The clock is ticking… September 25–27 is almost here!

🔥 HEART OF THE LAKES FIRE SUMMIT 🔥

If you’ve been thinking about attending, now is the time to stop thinking and get registered.

Three days focused on making firefighters and fire companies better, smarter, and more prepared for the fireground.

🚒 Real-world tactics
🔥 Engine company operations
🧯 Mayday mindset
👊 Limited staffing strategies
🚪 Forcible entry
📊 Firefighter Rescue Survey insights
💪 Lessons you can take back to your crew

This isn’t just another conference. It’s an opportunity to sharpen your skills, challenge your thinking, and bring something valuable home to your department.

📅 September 25–27, 2026
📍 Alexandria, Minnesota

⏳ ONLY 4 WEEKS LEFT.

Don’t wait until the week of the summit and wish you had registered.

Get your crew together. Register today.

🔥 The fireground doesn’t wait. Neither should your training.

https://firenuggets.regfox.com/26-hotlfs

08/25/2026

Reach out to Woods if interested!

DEMO OPPORTUNITY!!

Alexandria, MN Area

$$3,650 for a built out Wood’s Forcible Entry door. Door will be brand new and only used at the conference if someone wants to take it home from there.

Comment or tag below if interested

Heart of the Lakes Fire Summit

08/24/2026

Firefighters, officers, and fire service leaders—this is one you DON’T want to miss!

Join us in Alexandria, Minnesota for three days of high-impact training, practical tactics, and lessons from firefighters who have been in the fight.

Friday & Saturday Lectures Include:
- Run to the Sound of the Guns
- Engine Company Operations at Apartment Fires
- The Mayday Mindset: “The Path to Mastery”
- FFRS: From the Survey to the Streets

Sunday H.O.T.
- Engine Co. Tactics For Limited Staffing
- Irons Ready

This summit is built around real-world fireground operations, leadership, decision-making, and tactics you can take back to your department.

📍 Alexandria Hotel & Conference Center
5637 MN-29, Alexandria, MN 56308

Bring your crew. Bring your questions. Bring the mindset to get better.

🔥 Train hard. Stay ready. Go home.

https://firenuggets.regfox.com/26-hotlfs

08/24/2026

Demo door opportunity!

DEMO OPPORTUNITY!!

Alexandria, MN Area

$$3,650 for a built out Wood’s Forcible Entry door. Door will be brand new and only used at the conference if someone wants to take it home from there.

Comment or tag below if interested

Heart of the Lakes Fire Summit

08/21/2026

Firefighter Sponsor Highlight
Fire Maul

Thank you Fire Maul Tools for sponsoring the Summit!

Fire Maul Tools make tried and true tools focused towards the fire service! Check them out!

08/20/2026

Lieutenant sponsorship highlight
Hen Technologies

Thank you Hen Technologies for supporting the Summit and the firefighters that are attending to better themselves.

Hen Technologies will also be doing demos of the Hen Nozzle during lunch of the lecture days.

08/19/2026

Two of our board members had the opportunity to sit down and talk about the conference! We talked about the importance of outside training. The high level instructors we bring in. Every instructor and class is high quality training for any level of the fire service. Thank you Hazard Class Podcast for bringing us on!

Are we actually as competent as we think we are?

Austin Beier and Taylor Hayes from the Heart of the Lakes Fire Summit join Jake for a conversation about training, complacency, and what happens when “this is how we’ve always done it” becomes good enough.

They get into searching without a hose line, learning through failure, getting outside the walls of your own firehouse, smooth bore vs. fog nozzles, hose and nozzle selection, fire flow, truck work, and why some of the hardest things to change in the fire service have nothing to do with tactics and everything to do with ego.

If we expect firefighters to solve people's worst problems, volunteer, paid-on-call, or career, then competency isn't optional.

Plus, we preview the 2026 Heart of the Lakes Fire Summit and why Austin and Taylor are working to bring high-level fire training to Minnesota.

Now streaming on YouTube and Spotify Video, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Hazard Class | Austin Beier & Taylor Hayes

08/14/2026

📣📣We are officially only 6 weeks away📣📣

Firefighters, officers, and fire service leaders—this is one you DON’T want to miss!

Join us in Alexandria, Minnesota for three days of high-impact training, practical tactics, and lessons from firefighters who have been in the fight.

Friday & Saturday Lectures Include:
- Run to the Sound of the Guns
- Engine Company Operations at Apartment Fires
- The Mayday Mindset: “The Path to Mastery”
- FFRS: From the Survey to the Streets

Sunday H.O.T.
- Engine Co. Tactics For Limited Staffing
- Irons Ready

This summit is built around real-world fireground operations, leadership, decision-making, and tactics you can take back to your department.

📍 Alexandria Hotel & Conference Center
5637 MN-29, Alexandria, MN 56308

Bring your crew. Bring your questions. Bring the mindset to get better.

🔥 Train hard. Stay ready. Go home.

https://firenuggets.regfox.com/26-hotlfs

08/05/2026

📣📣Attention 📣📣

Attention! – We have an instructor change! Chief Ike was unable to make the conference due to work load with his new roll at Bay County Fire, but we are excited to see where these next couple years lead him and hope to have him back as soon as we can fit him back into our schedule!



With that being said – We are excited to announce that we were able to secure Jon Hall to speak on engine company operations at Apartment fires, everything from line selection, stretching and advancing the initial attack line, to standpipes, operations, and troubleshooting the systems.



We hope you join us this September as time is running out to register!

https://firenuggets.regfox.com/26-hotlfs