Jake and Hannah first met through the Ottertail Fire Department in 2018 when Hannah joined as an EMR while Jake was an EMR and Firefighter. At first, they never really talked, Hannah was up in Moorhead for college and only made calls on the weekend and never made it to meetings or events. On March 7th, 2019, there was a fire at a local dairy farm that both Hannah and Jake went to. The next day after the fire, they went on their first date at the Woodshed in Ottertail after washing fire trucks at the fire hall. Small town MN, word spread quick and soon everyone knew people saw them together for lunch. They officially became a couple on March 26, 2019. Hannah and Jake moved in to their first house together on July 15th, 2020 and were engaged on December 23rd, 2020.