Milwaukee Fire Chief Aaron Lipski joined Wisconsin’s Afternoon News and said calls to crashes involving reckless driving are taking a toll on his firefighters. Lipski also noted the impact on regular people as well.
“Many times, the ones in real trouble were not the ones driving recklessly,” he said.
40 people have been injured or killed in a reckless driving in 2022 with 80 injured or killed last year.
Lipski said it’s the increasing volume of the crashes that is accumulating its effects on fire and paramedic crews – specifying that it’s often after crews have delivered patients from the scene of the accident to the hospital that they can process what they’ve seen.
“It just circulates in your head,” he said.
Lipski says they work closely with peer and outside counselors and are looking into a chaplain program.
