BELLEVUE, WI (WTAQ) – Multiple emergency response agencies come together for training on how to deal with an active shooter threat.
Bellevue Fire and Rescue and the Brown County Sheriff’s SWAT and County Rescue gather at Innovative Industrial BOE Group in Bellevue Monday night to prepare for how to react collaboratively to a crisis.
“We need to communicate, and that’s usually been a problem. That’s the biggest thing we’re working on here. We’re getting everybody to talk together and know who’s doing what. Fire departments are getting stretched to be more involved on this type of thing. Instead of everybody waiting until the scene is safe, we come in so people don’t bleed out from being inside, waiting until the threat is eliminated.”
Bellevue EMS Captain Glen Unsinn says seeing tragedies like last month’s in Parkland, Florida takes an emotional toll on emergency responders.
“It’s heart-wrenching to see this happen. We just need to be prepared. We hope it never happens again, but it doesn’t seem to be ending. It seems like every three days you hear something is going on somewhere.”
Unsinn says their last drill of this magnitude was roughly two years ago. He notes they also do smaller drills at the fire house multiple times each year.
