TOMAH, Wis. (WXOW)\u00a0\u2013 The Tomah Police Department responded to a call from an individual experiencing a mental health crisis around 7:37 a.m. on Tuesday, January 20.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a Facebook post, the department says officers found the subject seated in their semi-truck and in possession of a pistol at the 310 E McCoy Blvd Kwik Trip. Officers then established a perimeter around the semi and began evacuating civilians.<\/p>\n
Assistant Chief of the Tomah Police Department, Jarrod Furlano, said the cold was a major factor in the response.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a very busy parking lot we were dealing with,\u201d said Furlano. \u201cWith the truck stop and the cold weather, our officers have a hard time being outside in the elements for an extended period of time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tomah Area Ambulance Service and Tomah Fire Department aided with the evacuation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Eventually, law enforcement was able to make contact with the individual from an armored vehicle. The driver then exited their semi without any weapons and was apprehended without incident.<\/p>\n
Police say it was an isolated incident. Charges are to come.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOMAH, Wis. (WXOW)\u00a0\u2013 The Tomah Police Department responded to a call from an individual experiencing a mental health…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[127332,103,61,60,127333,410,411,8519,127331],"class_list":{"0":"post-255397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-fire-department","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-kwik-trip","13":"tag-mental-health","14":"tag-mentalhealth","15":"tag-police","16":"tag-tomah"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}