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Onalaska fire staff brief council on Wisconsin Task Force 1; council approves $2,000 toward joint fire facilities study
Summary
Assistant Fire Chief Jeremy Southworth briefed the Onalaska Common Council about Wisconsin Task Force 1 membership and training opportunities; later the council approved a not-to-exceed $2,000 contribution toward a joint facilities and staffing study with neighboring municipalities.
Assistant Fire Chief Jeremy Southworth presented the council with an overview of Wisconsin Task Force 1 and Onalaska Fire Department’s possible involvement. He said state budget changes allow Task Force 1 to grow and that the team is a deployable technical rescue resource that can respond statewide or nationally.
Southworth told the council the task force is expanding from roughly "40 ish to like 80, 90" members and that Onalaska has about six firefighters already trained in elements of the task force. He said the city could nominate one or two members to apply; nominees would receive…
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