South Milwaukee firefighters respond to 2 Labor Day incidents at Grant Park

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) — Two separate rescue efforts this Labor Day in South Milwaukee introduced emergency automobiles to Grant Park.

A captain with the South Milwaukee Hearth Division says each accidents concerned youngsters and on this huge park, they had been simply 100 yards aside.

The primary occurred proper alongside the water. The captain says a woman was struggling to remain afloat. The waves had been uneven even hours after the accident, making it exhausting for her to swim. 

Her brother jumped in and rescued her earlier than firefighters arrived. 

South Milwaukee firefighters had been virtually again on the station when one other name got here in, this for a woman who’d been climbing on a rock pile and fell, hitting her head. 

The 2 accidents resulted in a number of group concern on-line and on the park.

“We pulled up and there was cops and a fireplace truck and an ambulance within the car parking zone. They had been strolling all the way down to the seaside and there was a stretcher like on the high of the paths,” stated Taylor Moss.

“We had been very involved once we drove in as a result of there was a commotion of automobiles,” stated Luke Schraufnagel.

“I have been right here earlier than and there was by no means as many individuals within the water. It was much more waves and it is much more windier at present,” stated Moss.

Three youngsters concerned, from two completely different households. 

They had been all taken to Kids’s Wisconsin with minor accidents.