“Americans in every generation have turned to their maker in prayer in adoration and in thanksgiving in contrition and supplication we have acknowledged both our dependency on Almighty God and the help he offers as individuals and as a nation.”

“Scripture tells us to rejoice in hope be patient in tribulation and constant in prayer our prayer for our nation is that we keep faith that our best days are ahead of us and continue to believe in honesty decency dignity and respect may we see each other not as enemies but fellow human beings made in the image of God.”

“This group obviously successfully completed their first year probation which included four weeks of a joint fire academy with Burnsville Egan and South Metro Fire. They played a very vital role in our transition to a hybrid department and have been instrumental in preserving and promoting our department's culture.”

“This is a really historic moment for the city for you guys to be the first part of helping the transition to moving from volunteer to hybrid so we're really excited to have everybody here full-time and look forward to your leadership in our city.”

“I love seeing your families here. To you all we are very proud of the firefighters that we're ushering in and I know you all are too. Thank you in advance for all the nights that are interrupted and the service that your whole family is doing for the city of Lakeville.”

“The duty crew you can see that on the far right they're at 700 calls for the first quarter and then the stations you can kind of see those trending downwards as we rely more on that staffed engine but we're still in need of those stations to cover when we have those overlapping calls.”

“Water is the best thing is you want to maintain or cool the battery if the battery is in a thermal runaway. They're also recommending fire blankets so if it's around another vehicle or an exposure is that we want to try to cover that and then protect the exposure.”

“In March we started 16 full-time firefighters that were part of the safer grant. As of last Thursday they completed their joint academy fire training. This week they are doing fire inspector one training this week and on Monday afternoon they'll start working 24-hour shifts.”

“It was a challenging site. They worked hard with us. We pushed them a little bit. Lost a couple of lots in the process which they don't love but we have to abide by our requirements and it turned out to be a really good layout in the end.”

“I appreciate the work that went into adjusting this. I was hopeful that through this process we weren't going to try to find the most the smallest possible lots for this zoning and you know doing some statistics on the square footage it's clear that most of the properties are larger than the minimum which is appreciated. The preservation of the wetlands is great. Congruence with the properties to the south is clear that this took some creativity and some work to make this happen.”