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Personnel with Fort McCoy’s Directorate of Emergency Services (DES) took numerous vehicles and equipment to support the 17th annual Monroe County National Night Out event Aug. 6 in Tomah, Wis.
Hundreds of people attended the event, which was held for four hours at Tomah’s Winnebago Park. Introduced in 1984 by the National Association of Town Watch, National Night Out is a nonprofit crime-prevention organization that works in cooperation with thousands of crime-watch groups and law-enforcement agencies throughout the country.
Representatives of the Tomah Police Department said local officials know it helps build relationships that help create safe communities.
Fort McCoy police and fire department support for National Night Out included six police vehicles and 10 police personnel and the fire department’s hazardous material trailer and three personnel.
Fort McCoy police personnel also provided service to dozens of families for the event with Operation Family Safe, which included three EZ child-identification (ID) stations, said Officer Dan Kabat, who supported the event.
“The EZ child-ID stations provide cards and CDs with information for parents,” Kabat said.
Police vehicles and equipment on display included a police all-terrain side-by-side vehicle, a conservation warden game truck, police SUV cruiser, the Mobile Command Unit, and more.
Fire department personnel set up hazardous material trailer for visitors to look through, and fire department personnel were on hand to answer questions about fire prevention.
At a separate National Night Out event the same day in Bangor, Wis., Fort McCoy Fire Prevention Inspector Curt Ladwig participated with the fire department’s smoke house, which allows visitors to experience what it might be like to be in a structure that is on fire and shows them how to escape.
At the Monroe County event, dozens of not-for-profit organizations also had various exhibits, information booths, and displays on subjects like nutrition, school bus safety, biking safety, storm spotting, parenting, water safety, electricity safety, seatbelt use, boating safety, all-terrain vehicle safety, poison control, mental health, and first aid.
Located in the heart of the upper Midwest, Fort McCoy is the only U.S. Army installation in Wisconsin.
The installation has provided support and facilities for the field and classroom training of more than 100,000 military personnel from all services each year since 1984.
Learn more about Fort McCoy online at https://home.army.mil/mccoy, on Facebook by searching “ftmccoy,” and on Twitter by searching “usagmccoy.”
| Date Taken: | 08.22.2019 |
| Date Posted: | 08.22.2019 12:00 |
| Story ID: | 336909 |
| Location: | FORT MCCOY, WI, US |
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