The top two officials of the Manitowoc Fire Department both praised the emergency response coordination for a drowning incident last Friday.
Assistant Fire Chief Jason Russ, who began at the local department in January, spoke this week on WOMT’s Be My Guest program about the search effort in the Manitowoc harbor that ended with the body being recovered.
“Along the shoreline, it’s a federal waterway, so that brings in other resources such as the U.S. Coast Guard to assist with those,” he explained. “Realistically, the biggest part is the information gathered from the dispatched center, getting all the resources on scene, coming together…finding those people that were eye witnesses to it. Those eyewitnesses are key because that helps us pinpoint the last known locations.”
Chief Todd Blaser added, “unfortunately, a life was lost in this particular incident.”
Blaser did it was good to see that people in Manitowoc and Manitowoc County, public safety-wise, are well-protected because “We seem to work together as a team…Even starting with the citizens who paid attention and saw what happened. Together, that is what makes this whole community wonderful.”
