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For the third time in five years Midwest Fire Equipment & Repair Company (Midwest Fire) was named one of fifty winners in Prairie Business Magazine’s (Prairie Business) “50 Best Places to Work 2019” contest. Prairie Business boasts over 1,400 employee-written nominations for this year’s competition. 

“It’s a huge honor to be featured among so many successful businesses in our state, and even more so to be chosen a third time,” said Midwest Fire’s CEO Sarah Atchison. “I attribute our success to our team of experienced professionals and the business culture we have created together. Everything we do at Midwest Fire—from building the trucks to customer service—flows from a team effort.” 

Prairie Business Magazine holds this competition each year to reward and highlight the region’s best places to work, based solely on employee appeal and nomination.  Midwest Fire also received this recognition in 2015 and 2016.  The award recognizes employee-nominated companies for exceptional benefits, work culture, general employee happiness and various other pull-factors that retain employees. The winners will be featured in the September issue of the publication.  

Midwest Fire is a direct-seller and manufacturer of custom fire apparatus and offers continued support to customers with maintenance and repairs. Employees work directly with fire departments across the country to customize and build state-of-the-art firefighting apparatus. They were previously nominated for the 2018 and 2016 Minnesota Manufacturing Awards among several other honors in recent years.