Sauk County Sheriff Chip Meister told a room of roughly 20, which included the members of the county Law Enforcement and Judiciary Committee meeting, that two of his deputies deserved the lifesaving awards they received after going beyond expectations to save a man’s life.
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A car sits damaged at the trunk of two trees in a yard along the E12000 block of Highway 33 just outside of Baraboo. The one-vehicle crash occurred around 1 p.m. Wednesday, rerouting traffic for about a half-hour and causing delays for longer as emergency personnel worked at the scene during the afternoon.
- BRIDGET COOKE/ Baraboo News Republic
A Medflight helicopter lands on City View Road north of Baraboo after a head-on collision in October 2019. Two people were taken to the University of Wisconsin Hospital and were described as in "serious condition" by Sauk County Sheriff Chip Meister.
- BRIDGET COOKE/News Republic
GALLERY: Sauk County emergency response
An aircraft rests in a field at Baraboo-Wisconsin Dells Regional airport after a crash Thursday. Sauk County Sheriff's Office said no one was injured.
- SUSAN ENDRES, Baraboo News Republic
A car sits damaged at the trunk of two trees in a yard along the E12000 block of Highway 33 just outside of Baraboo. The one-vehicle crash occurred around 1 p.m. Wednesday, rerouting traffic for about a half-hour and causing delays for longer as emergency personnel worked at the scene during the afternoon.
- BRIDGET COOKE/ Baraboo News Republic
A Medflight helicopter lands on City View Road north of Baraboo after a head-on collision in October 2019. Two people were taken to the University of Wisconsin Hospital and were described as in "serious condition" by Sauk County Sheriff Chip Meister.
- BRIDGET COOKE/News Republic
Baraboo emergency personnel work around one of the vehicles involved in a head-on crash Halloween just north of the city.
- BRIDGET COOKE/News Republic
A fire destroyed a 112 by 45 foot machinery shed and its contents Jan. 11 in the Sauk County town of Fairfield.
- BARABOO FIRE DEPARTMENT, Contributed
The Baraboo, Kilbourn, Delton, North Freedom, Portage fire departments and Baraboo Ambulance respond to a fire in May 2020 that destroyed the Log Lodge Motel in West Baraboo.
- MITCHELL TRAVIS/Contributed
The Baraboo Fire Department said this house on Terrytown Road was fully engulfed in flames in March 2019 when firefighters arrived at the scene.
- BFD/Contributed
The Baraboo Fire Department and Sauk County Sheriff's Office were among the first responders to a March 2019 morning house fire on Terrytown Road.
- BEN BROMLEY/News Republic
The Baraboo Fire Department, along with crews from Sauk Prairie and North Freedom, burned down the closed Farm Kitchen Restaurant in December 2018 as part of a training exercise.
- TIM DAMOS/News Republic
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