FORT PIERRE (KCCR) — Two Fort Pierre Volunteer Fire Department members are back in central South Dakota after spending last week fighting high temps and hot fires on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Engine Boss Tye Odden and Trey Stroup went to Pine Ridge to help relieve local fire fighters with the fire department in Piedmont..
The U-S Drought Monitor is again showing an expansion of drought in southwest South Dakota and Odden says conditions are very dry…
Part of Odden and Stroup’s mission was to patrol and attack areas of new fire development.
Severe drought now makes up four-point-six percent of drought in South Dakota. Moderate drought expanded by four-percent while abnormally dry areas grew six-percent. Drought-free areas fell by six-percent. Abnormally dry areas grew 63-percent this week in Jackson County; 41-percent in Haakon; 49-percent in Ziebach and five-percent in Dewey County.
