Months after two rounds of severe storms, including a tornado ripped across Kalamazoo County, Sheriff Richard Fuller released a new perspective on how police officers, firefighters, and other emergency personnel jumped into action on May 7.
In a video posted to the Sheriff’s Office Facebook page, Sheriff Fuller said he was amazed at the amount of help sent in by neighboring communities and counties that night.
“We as responders were on scene all across the county,” Fuller said. “Texas fire were taking care of the Texas township area. The city of Portage had its team working in the city of Portage as well as the Kalamazoo County team was out helping the different fire departments out in pavilion Township. That day, everybody came together. It was a great sense of being able to work with one another, and it’s because we prepare as a community regularly for our emergency services to work together.”
“I saw the Michigan State Police, Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office, the county next door came over to assist us with these things, as well as all of the different fire departments,” said Fuller. “I saw, the Richland Fire Department, the Augusta police department was in pavilion estates, helping us with the residents who were suffering minor injuries, but the trauma was significant.”