APPLETON, WI (WTAQ) – Just back from a deployment to western North Carolina to assist in the wake of Hurricane Helene, members of the Wisconsin Department of Emergency Management’s Task Force 1 are ready to head to Florida to help with recovery from Hurricane Milton.
Bob Zimmerman is a Task Force 1 leader.
“We did receive a request for assistance from the state of Florida for hurricane Milton, and we submitted our response to that request, letting them know what we had available. And so at the moment, we’re waiting to hear from them, and if they if they would like, we are ready to deploy immediately.”
Zimmerman says the things that task force members learn in training at Volk Field, and on deployments, can be applied when they return to their local agencies.
Task Force 1 has more than 130 members around the state, and personnel from eight fire departments, including Green Bay, Appleton, Oshkosh, and Fond Du Lac, took part in the Helene deployment.
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