🚨 Harris County will become home to nation’s largest flood rescue training facility

HOUSTON – Houston will soon be home to the nation’s largest swift-water rescue training facility, a $104 million project transforming 27 acres in Mission Bend into a state-of-the-art hub for first responders and public flood preparedness.

The facility, dubbed STORM Ranch (Swift-water Training for Operation and Rescue Missions), represents an ambitious initiative by Community Volunteer Fire Department and Harris Fort Bend ESD 100 to revolutionize how first responders train for water rescues and flood events.

“We’re taking into effect all of the local flood events but also the flood events that have happened in the United States all the way from North Carolina all the way to California and how can we encompass that here to make sure we’re training everybody adequately,” said Cpt. Sa