(WFRV) – After a historic blizzard dropped dozens of inches of snow across multiple northeast Wisconsin municipalities, officials across the area have reported initial service call totals.
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The Brown County Sheriff’s Office reported 304 service calls from midnight on March 15 until 5 p.m. on March 16, a nearly 52% increase from a week before in the same period. 70% were considered weather-related, with 193 driver assistance calls.
The Door County Sheriff’s Office responded to at least 50 vehicles in ditches from Saturday night until Tuesday morning, with 36 motorist assist calls in the same time frame. At least 10 calls were for downed wires and two were for downed trees.
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Additional statistics were as follows, (not all reports are the same timeframe):
- Calumet County Sheriff’s Office (Midnight 3/15—7 a.m. 3/17)
- 216 calls
- 95 motorist assists (vehicles in ditches/stuck in roadway)
- 19 crashes
- 25 additional weather incidents
- 216 calls
- Hobart-Lawrence Police Department
- 112 calls
- Outagamie County
- Nearly 500 calls reporting disabled vehicles
- Nearly 100 crashes
- Waupaca County Sheriff’s Office
- 240 calls for service
- 64 crashes
- 96 disabled vehicles
- 240 calls for service
- Wisconsin State Patrol
- 225 vehicle runoffs
- 92 crashes, 11 with injury/injuries
- 188 motorist assists
