So often we hear of the dangerous and sad events our first reponders are involved in. Recently one Portage's public safety officers stopped to make a welfare check for a woman sitting in a wheelchair on a sidewalk.
The Cuff and Ladder Fund was created in 2006 by a Public Safety Officer and his wife who saw the need to have resources available for local first responders who became sick, injured or unable to serve their community.
Public safety officers from Kalamazoo and Portage trade their holsters for hockey sticks in the Battle of the Badges hockey game at Wings Event Center.