Coweta chief headed to prestigious conference

Coweta County Fire-Rescue Chief Pat Wilson is one of 40 professionals from across the United States to be invited to attend the sixth Fire-Rescue Wingspread Conference in Wisconsin later this month.

“A total of 40 leaders from all walks of the American fire-rescue service community have been summoned to the shores of Lake Michigan to help forecast and shape the issues of ‘National Significance’ to solving the fire problem in the United States,” said the 2016 Wingspread Conference Chairman Chief Alan Brunacini.

Wilson commented on the invitation to attend the conference in late July. 

“To be invited to this event is a great honor as it will set forth important guidelines for the fire-safety community across our country,” Wilson said.

In February 1966, the Johnson Wax Foundation first called 10 of the nation’s fire service leaders to the world famous Wingspread Conference Center in Racine, Wisconsin. 

The purpose of gathering the leaders was simple: the Johnson Wax Foundation wanted to produce a useful document that described the “Statement of Critical Issues to the Fire and Emergency Services in the United States.”