Teams Spotlight
Discover our specilized teams and the equipment they use
Fire prevention and Community education
This group is responsible for educating the public about fire prevention and safety. They do this through the avenues of social media, events, demos, walk throughs, station tours, fire inspections, school visits and our annual open house.
Fire Extinguisher demos at the Sauk Prairie High School
Fire Prevention Presentation to Bridges Elementary Students
Station tour
Fire Prevention Presentation to Grand Ave Students
Rope rescue and confined space
Our Rope Rescue Team is responsible for situations that involve confined space, low angle rescues and high angle rescues. They use a variety of different equipment including life safety ropes, carabiners, change of direction systems, harnesses, helmets and rescue baskets.
Squad 2 carries most of our equipment and tools for this team
High Angle training at Rock of Gibraltar
Low Angle training along the banks of the Wisconsin River
Indoor training on packaging a patient
Water and ice rescue
Our Water and Ice Rescue Team utilizes our boat and a ropes rescue team for a variety of calls: stranded boats, distress calls on or near the water, flooding, ice rescues, wildland firefighting operations, water recoveries, and anytime operations are in or around bodies of water.
Our 18ft Polar Kraft named "Victory"
Our Boat navigating the Wisconsin River
Ice Rescue Training
Ice Rescue training utilizing our ropes team
wildland fire and rescue
Our wildland fire and rescue team carries equipment and tools to respond to calls such as: brush, tree and vegetation fires, hikers that may be injured or lost and off-road accidents. The apparatus needs to be able to traverse difficult terrain of mud, snow, gravel, rocks as well as paved surfaces.
Our Brush Truck (B2) is our primary response vehicle for wildland fires. It carries water, hoses, a pump and tools.
Our Brush Truck at our annual Easter Egg Hunt.
Our Brush 3 UTV (B3) compliments B2 in wildland fire fighting with the water and tools it carries.
B3 is primary for off-road operations in any weather conditions such as lost persons, snowmobile accidents, injured hikers.