PHOTOS: The general consensus was that a successful Hazardous Material training exercise was accomplished in and around Poynette Village Hall on July 14.
Sergeant Nathan Stillings with the 54th WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction) Civil Support Team of Wisconsin’s National Guard led the training, complete with a fictional storyline and full suspect background.
The days events were all highlighted in a Master Events and Scenario List provided by Stillings.
The day began around 7 a.m. when a package that sat outside Village Hall was picked up by Village Clerk Natalie Megow. She opened the package, addressed to the Village President, which released a mysterious white powder — a set of anti-theft chemical deterrent vials also planned to break, per the storyline, releasing a small amount of chloropicrin in the room.