ASHWAUBENON, WI (WTAQ) – Brown County Emergency teams spent the day Thursday doing rescue training at the Resch Center.
“Once we get the bad guy, what goes on after that?”
That question was addressed as the focus of the training was coordination and communication among agencies using the Rescue Task Force model.
During the training, teams of fire/rescue and law enforcement personnel who enter an active shooter scene, perform life-saving treatments and evacuations to injured victims.
“From just stopping the killing to stopping the dying.”
De Pere Fire Chief Alan Matzke is the Chair of the MAVIS Subcommittee and said having a multi-discipline training does not happen very often.
“We have veterans with 25 or 30 years up to new officers today. Depending on the discipline, some may not have had this training at all.”
He says the Resch Center provided the perfect training grounds.
The training was on eliminating the threat and transporting causalities and injuries.
Doctor Steve Stroman of the Regional Trauma Advisory Council says too often, untrained officers have to wait for EMS to arrive.
“So we are teaching the police officers and firefighters and dispatchers how to put on tourniquets, how to pack and would and stop the bleeding.”
Lt. Kevin Pawlak of the Brown County Sheriff’s Office says it gives each discipline training that they are not used to.
“From EMS side, going into zones that might not have gone into in the past because they are going to have police protection to go in with their medical expertise to do more than just the initial stuff that police did when they got in there.”
Over 500 safety professionals are receiving this training.
