The Polk County Sheriff’s Office partnered with Crookston Area Ambulance for the Sheriff’s Office’s annual First Responder Training. “We split their crews in half in order to satisfy who is on duty and who is off,” says Nick Neibauer from the Crookston Area Ambulance. “It includes oxygen administration training, extrication from vehicles and other such practices that they partner with the Ambulances with.”
The training was hands-on and thorough as the Sheriff’s deputies and staff are the first on scene in a lot of cases. Everyone had time to practice CPR and use an AED (Automated external defibrillator). “Although different departments, services, and buildings may have different AEDs, they all do the same thing,” said Neibauer. “AEDs vary by what services are carrying them, and what company they buy them from, but, overall, they have universally structured them to where they work the same.”
The training was being led by Polk County Deputy April Hanson and Brian Rystad from the Crookston Area Ambulance. Sheriff Deputy Titan Engen was on hand for training. “Today we are doing basic life saving, so like, CPR, First Aid, AED, and then we are doing some more trauma stuff and anything to do with medical we might encounter down the road,” said Engen.
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office holds First Responder Training annually.
