Equipment used to train firefighters was destroyed in a fire Monday night.
Jack Volz owns a first-responder training company and was out of town training fellow firefighters when he heard that a shed on his rural Minnesota Lake property was on fire.
The fire destroyed the shed and its contents, said Volz, who is a member of the Minnesota Lake Fire Department.
He used the shed to store equipment for his training business, including a driving simulator that Volz said cost around $100,000.
Still, Volz is thankful much of the equipment he uses frequently was out on assignment. He won’t have to cancel any of his upcoming training sessions.
“It was a pretty big loss, but it could have been much, much worse,” he said.
Firefighters from six departments responded to the 631st Avenue property and “did a phenomenal job,” said Volz, who recently retired as Minnesota Lake’s chief but continues to serve as a firefighter.