Wright County Fire - Special Response Unit

Wright County Fire - Special Response Unit Team Of Firefighters From Wright County That Specialize In Low/High Angle Rescue, Hazmat Mitigation.

This months training topic was on confined space / rope rescue, team members were tasked with crawling through a 24” cul...
02/04/2026

This months training topic was on confined space / rope rescue, team members were tasked with crawling through a 24” culvert with gear and also worked on rigging setups and knot tying. Thank you to Customized Fire Rescue Training Inc. for providing great training / instructor for this months training.

Another successful training session has been completed, with this month's training team members undergoing confined spac...
09/03/2025

Another successful training session has been completed, with this month's training team members undergoing confined space rope rescue training at one of the City of Buffalo's sewage lift stations, where members had the opportunity to be lowered down the manhole shafts to the pump room. At the end of the training, team members were tasked with simulating a downed worker and had to get lowered down, package the worker, and raise them to the top. Thank you to the City of Buffalo, for allowing our team to train in your city and to our instructor from Customized Fire Rescue Training Inc. for the great training.

This Months Training WCSRU Team was able to go back to GCC Cement Plant in Albertville and repell off 160’ silo on the p...
07/09/2025

This Months Training WCSRU Team was able to go back to GCC Cement Plant in Albertville and repell off 160’ silo on the plant property, All members plus our amazing ropes instructor Tom Schmitz From Customized Fire Rescue Training Inc. were able to take turns repelling down the silo. Huge thanks goes out to GCC Plant for allowing us to train at there facility and to Customized Fire Rescue Training Inc. for their support and great instructor.

This month’s team training consisted of utilizing a ladder for rope rescue operations. Team members did multiple evoluti...
05/15/2025

This month’s team training consisted of utilizing a ladder for rope rescue operations. Team members did multiple evolutions of using a ladder for lowering a patient in a stokes basket while only using human anchor points and then we transitioned over to using a ladder as a gin pole to lower and raise a rescue member over a man hole, team also worked on using ladders as a tripod and an anchor point for door way entrances to an elevator shaft. Thank To Customized Fire Rescue Training Inc. for providing us great training and an instructor for this month’s training.

Last night SRU team members conducted pre Incident planning / site walk through of GCC cement plant in Albertville , tea...
10/02/2024

Last night SRU team members conducted pre Incident planning / site walk through of GCC cement plant in Albertville , team members also did some confined space training simulating a downed worker in the cement unloading pit . Thank You to GCC Companies for allowing our team to train at your facility and to Customized Fire Rescue Training Inc.for the training .

This Evening SRU Members worked on technical rescue on grain bins, members were tasked with rigging a 6:1 mechanical adv...
08/14/2024

This Evening SRU Members worked on technical rescue on grain bins, members were tasked with rigging a 6:1 mechanical advantage utilizing a tension high-line system and lowering a rescuer down in the bin and hauling the rescuer back up. Thank to Customized Fire Rescue Training Inc. and Instructor Tom Schmitz for the training , also a huge thank you to Centre Farms for allowing our team to come out and train at your grain bin site .

This past Friday The Wright County Special Response Unit Members went to Cargill In Monticello for there annual EAP Day ...
03/18/2024

This past Friday The Wright County Special Response Unit Members went to Cargill In Monticello for there annual EAP Day . Members Conducted a simulated ammonia leak drill with a down plant worker that needed to be rescued and brought out to a safe location. Great job done by all, 2 members Doned Level A Hazmat Suits with SCBA and went inside the simulated area and found the down worker and had him packaged and removed from the hot zone within 11 minutes from gearing up to rescue . Thank You to Cargill and all there staff for having us at there Monticello plant and Thank you for your continued support of the Wright County Special Response Unit.

February’s Monthly Training , Team worked on Horizontal Confined Space Rescue, utilizing human anchor points systems and...
02/08/2024

February’s Monthly Training , Team worked on Horizontal Confined Space Rescue, utilizing human anchor points systems and different mechanical advantage systems .

12/07/2023

Yesterday evening we held our elections for Assistant Supervisor And Equipment Officer, Congratulations To Jeff Farnick on being re-elected as Assistant Supervisor And Grant Carlson being elected as Equipment Officer , And Thank You to Michael Beran for being Equipment Officer for the last 2 years.

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