GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – A team effort is taking shape in order to protect all Wisconsin children.
Local and state firefighters, along with the American Football Coaches Association and the Green Bay Packers are teaming up to help Wisconsin parents in the event their child goes missing. It’s called “Safety Blitz”.
“Together with more than 4,000 professional firefighters across the state, our goal is to provide more than 900,000 Child ID Kits for Kindergartners through 12th graders,” said Packers President/CEO Mark Murphy during a press conference Monday.
The Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin has already kicked off their “Fill the Helmet” campaign to support the project by helping to raise funds and awareness.
“We believe in this program because we want to give every family in our great state the best possible chance of helping law enforcement find their missing, abducted, runaway or exploited child, if the unthinkable should happen,” said Mahlon Mitchell, President of the Professional Fire Fighters of Wisconsin.
The overall goal is to raise more than $1 million, but in the Green Bay area, Local 141 President Chad Bronkhorst says it’ll be $100,000 for the program. Bronkhorst is confident they will meet that challenge.
The Child ID Kit allows parents to collect specific info by easily recording the physical characteristics and fingerprints of their children on identification cards — that are then kept at home. It can be turned over to law enforcement should their child go missing.
There’s also a friendly challenge involving Fire Fighters in Wisconsin and Texas to see who can meet the goal first.
