Training to save a life

The Moorcroft EMS and Fire Departments held their semi-annual full participation training exercise on the southwest corner of Town Hall Saturday morning. Twenty first responders, including EMS and Fire volunteers, attended as well as four volunteer “victims” needing extrication from the staged two-vehicle accident.

The class is required for the EMS recruits, long time fireman Fred Devish reported. “We had some fairly new firemen, too, who got to tear apart a car,” he said.

The battered vehicles were bought from Dexter’s Automotive in Moorcroft who delivered the wrecks and the fa...