Firefighters denied access to Capitol during emergency call

[RandySF]

Madison -- Security is so restrictive at the state Capitol that firefighters were denied access to the building during an emergency call Tuesday, one of the firefighters said Thursday.

Dave Trainor, a Madison firefighter, said he was part of a crew dispatched to the Capitol on a call that someone was trapped in an elevator. Firefighters were denied access at one of the building's entrances that is being guarded by police.

Firefighters then had to make their way through a crowd of protesters outside the building and drive their 100-foot ladder truck to the other side of the Capitol to get inside.

As it turned out, a police officer was trapped in an elevator. But at the time of the call, firefighters did not know if there was a medical emergency, Trainor said.

"We lost crucial time on a call we didn't know anything about," he said.


http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/117349798.html

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. things are out of control in Madison!

[csziggy]

2. I'm sorry I cannot help but laugh

Police deny access the Fire Department to answer a call about a POLICE officer trapped in an elevator. That is just too good to not laugh. The Onion could not make this up!
:rofl:

[mmonk]

3. It is pretty awesome, isn't it?

[csziggy]

4. I'm just glad no one was actually in serious danger

If someone's well being had been threatened by this lock out, I would have loved if they sued the pants off of Walker, though.

[mmonk]

6. Me too.

But from an irony standpoint, it's amazing.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. VERY DIFFERENT frequencies

you got no idea just how many damn frigging frequencies I had on the radio. That said we did have different dispatchers in physically different places. These guys should not have a separate dispatch center.

[NotThisTime]

7. I thought the police weren't going to act as gate keepers??

[csziggy]

8. The Madison police refused so Walker brought in

scabs police from other towns.