Walworth County EMS Director Completes WEM Professional Emergency Management Certificate Program

According to a press release from the Walworth County Sheriff’s Office, Walworth County Emergency Management Director, Lieutenant Jason Rowland, recently completed the Wisconsin Emergency Management (W.E.M.) Professional Emergency Management Certificate Program. The training and certification is designed to be a 2-year course of study with a combination of online and in-person courses to include the Incident Command System (ICS), the National Incident Management System (NIMS), hazardous materials identification and response, natural disaster response and recovery, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) procedures, and the Wisconsin Disaster Response and Recovery Operations. In January 2021, Lt. Rowland enrolled in and subsequently completed this training program in 19 months. The course requires 374 training hours and a 100-question test covering every course section of the training. Lt. Rowland joins Captain Todd Neumann in completing the Professional Emergency Management Certificate Program.