Glenwood IA Professional Firefighters Local 5557

10/12/2026

🚨🚒 ANOTHER BUSY DAY FOR YOUR GLENWOOD PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS 🚑🔥

Since B Shift began their shift at 0700 hours, crews have responded to 7 calls for service, including 4 calls in just 68 minutes!

Today’s staffing consisted of:

First 12 hours 700-1900: 3 personnel (2 full-time and 1 part-time).

Second 12 hours 1900-0700: 2 full-time personnel.

Since last Sunday, October 4, the Glenwood Fire Department has responded to a total of 47 calls for service.

⚠️ STAFFING CONTINUES TO BE A SERIOUS CONCERN.

Our department continues to face staffing challenges, particularly when it comes to providing adequate personnel for structure fires and medical emergencies. These challenges affect our ability to respond safely and effectively when our community needs us most.

During a 68-minute period today, our crews handled:
🔥 1 house fire
🚜 1 fully involved tractor fire
🚑 2 medical calls

These four incidents were handled with a total of 7 members: 1 Fire Chief, 3 on-duty personnel, 2 off-duty personnel, and 1 volunteer firefighter.

HERE IS HOW THE CALLS UNFOLDED:

🕛 1228 – House Fire | Florence Avenue

Fire Car 1 – 1 member

Truck 12 – 3 members (2 on-duty, 1 off-duty)

Medic 2 – 1 on-duty member

Utility 11 – 1 off-duty member and 1 volunteer

🚑 1318 – Medical Call

Rescue 17 responded with 2 on-duty crew members.

🚜 1319 – Fully Involved Tractor Fire | Keys Road

Fire Car 1 – 1 member

Engine 15 – 3 members (2 on-duty, 1 off-duty)

Medic 2 – 1 on-duty member

Utility 11 – 1 volunteer

🚑 1336 – Medical Call

Medic 2 responded from the Keys Road fire with 1 on-duty crew member and 1 firefighter reassigned from Engine 15.

These incidents highlight the challenges our firefighters face when multiple emergencies happen simultaneously. Personnel must be divided between incidents, units must be reassigned, and additional resources may be needed while other calls are still being handled.

🛑 WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT!

We are asking the citizens of Glenwood and the surrounding townships to help us bring attention to the need for adequate fire and EMS staffing.

We encourage our community to engage with the City of Glenwood and surrounding township leadership to support solutions that provide sufficient personnel to respond to emergencies.

This is about more than staffing numbers. It is about your safety, your family’s safety, and the safety of the firefighters who respond when you call 911.

Our firefighters will continue to answer the call and do everything possible with the resources available. However, we need the community and local leadership to recognize these challenges and work toward a sustainable solution.

Please share this post and help us spread awareness. Our community deserves an emergency response system with adequate staffing to meet its needs.

🚒 Your firefighters show up for you. Please show up for them.

10/08/2026

We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of Firefighter / Medic Charles Jones, who died Thursday, October 8, following a medical emergency after responding to a structure fire on Monday, October 5, 2026.

For 19 years, Firefighter Jones was a valued member of the Council Bluffs Fire Department, responding to emergencies and helping residents during some of their most difficult moments. He will be remembered for his contributions to the department and the many lives he touched along the way.

“Charles Jones dedicated 19 years of his life to protecting and serving this community. His passing is a tremendous loss for our entire department,” said Chief Robert Schoening. “We are grateful for his service, his friendship, and the lasting impact he made on those who had the privilege of working alongside him.”

“The loss of firefighter Charles Jones is heartbreaking for our entire Council Bluffs community,” said Mayor Jill Shudak. “Charles dedicated himself to serving and protecting others, answering a calling that requires courage, compassion, and an unwavering commitment to those around him.”

The City of Council Bluffs extends its deepest condolences to Charles’s wife, children, family, friends, and fellow firefighters and asks the community to keep his loved ones in their thoughts while respecting the family’s privacy during this difficult time.

Information regarding memorial services and opportunities for the community to honor Firefighter / Medic Jones will be shared when available and in coordination with his family.

10/04/2026

We are honored to be teaming up with Operation Warm in helping to provide winter coats to children in need right here in Mills County.

100% of the donations will be going to purchasing these coats for the kids

Scan the QR Code if you are interested in donating

We have one simple goal for this: To make sure local children have a warm coat and the warmth, confidence, and hope that comes with it

Please consider donating and share this post to help us spread the word throughout Mills County

We will be ordering the coats and trying to have them available by the middle of this month

Any questions, email us at [email protected]

10/04/2026

🔥 Training Today for a Safer Tomorrow! 🔥

Seven members of your Glenwood Professional Firefighters, IAFF Local 5557, have been participating in a two-day National Fire Academy course on Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) for the Structural Firefighter, held at the Mills County Annex Building.

This training is essential for our members as they gain the education, skills, and working knowledge needed to safely and effectively respond when rural lands meet urban infrastructure.

In our communities, that can mean dealing with fires involving CRP ground, crops, DNR WMAs, and other rural areas that border or surround housing developments, stand-alone farmhouses, and other structures.

Wildland-urban interface incidents present unique challenges, and continued education helps ensure our firefighters are prepared to protect lives, property, and our communities when these situations arise.

We’re proud of our members for investing their time and effort into this important training—and we’re grateful for the opportunity to continue improving the service we provide to the communities we protect.

Train hard. Stay prepared. Protect our communities. 🚒🔥

10/02/2026

09/11/2026

25 Years of NEVER forgetting 343

09/09/2026

5 more days to order!!!!!!

The Glenwood Fire Department is selling T Shirts for its 150th Year of service. The Fire Department has partnered with the Amazing Local Business Joe Designers to make this happen. Click on the link below or scan the QR code to order your shirt today!!!!!! Every shirt purchased Joe will donate a portion of the cost directly back to the fire department.

The Glenwood Professional Firefighters encourage everyone to support local and to support small business. If you’re ever in the square stop into his shop at 427 Sharp Street or visit him online at www.joedesigner.net

13 more days to order!!!!!!

The Glenwood Fire Department is selling T Shirts for its 150th Year of service. The Fire Department has partnered with the Amazing Local Business Joe Designers to make this happen. Click on the link below or scan the QR code to order your shirt today!!!!!! Every shirt purchased Joe will donate a portion of the cost directly back to the fire department.

The Glenwood Professional Firefighters encourage everyone to support local and to support small business. If your every in the square stop into his shop at 427 Sharp Street or visit him online at www.joedesigner.net