Gallery: Hull FD hosts Metro training on Golla Rd.

Fire departments from several municipalities participated in Metro Fire training earlier this month.

Hull Fire Department hosted the training on Aug. 17 at a recently-vacated home at 5498 Golla Rd.

Fire Chief Ken Sadogierski said the scenario involved a two-story house on fire with one person trapped on the second floor. Crews used smoke machines to provide a smoky environment, and dispatchers from the Portage Co. Communications Center played along as if it were a real fire.

The training helps firefighters of all skill levels to work with other departments, and learn from other firefighters, Sadogierski said.

“We’re doing search and rescue [trainiong], fire tac (tactics)…right now, there’s a smoke machine in there so you can’t see your hand in front of your face,” he said.

Sadogierski said the home was vacated earlier this year, and a Town of Hull resident donated the house for use in firefighter training courses. The house will potentially be the site of a training burn at some point in the future, he added.  for the training, a training burn later possibly this year.

Metro Fire is comprised of fire departments from Hull, Stevens Point, and Plover. A Metro Fire response is automatic whenever smoke or flames are visible in a structure.