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Wis. paramedics describe scene of blasts during response

By Deb Fitzgerald
Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers

ELLISON BAY, Wis. — Julie Williams has been a paramedic for 10 years. Bob Landeck, a paramedic for 27. But neither their experience nor the 2:30 a.m. dispatch call Monday describing multiple explosions and injuries prepared them for the gravity of the event they were about to deal with.

Williams, 34, and Landeck, 57, were the first emergency personnel to arrive on the scene from the North Ambulance Center at the Sister Bay fire station early Monday, when three explosions in Ellison Bay claimed two lives and caused seven injuries.

“It wasn’t even a thought in my mind that it was going to be serious,” Williams said. “I know that sounds terrible, but you just never expect that.”

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