EMS exercise includes real life events

ABATE FREEDOM PARK — When a mock training exercise was planned in October, none of the emergency responders participating expected as much as eight inches of water to hit the training area.
“With our real life event going on the same time we’re doing an exercise, it kind of throws another different angle into it,” said David Penton, Kossuth County Emergency Management Coordinator. “We have pulled out of exercise play and are doing the real stuff.”
 
For more on this story, please see the June 28th issue of the Kossuth County Advance