Waukesha-made devices help protect roadside workers and pedestrians - TMJ4 News

GREENFIELD, Wis. — A Waukesha institution makes a instrumentality that is redeeming lives astir the world.

Several country first-responders usage Guardian Angel devices to marque their beingness known successful large crowds oregon erstwhile they're connected the broadside of the road.

Greenfield Police Department's Sergeant James Pizur knows the dangers of roadside enactment each excessively well.

"It was astir 10 oregon 12 years ago, I was connected a postulation stop. It was a precocious shift, truthful moving the mid-night hours. I did halt a driver, conducting an OWI probe and my squad was really deed by a operator that was impaired," Pizur said.

It's a world that archetypal responders look each day.

"I deliberation sometimes drivers whitethorn beryllium fixated connected exertion wrong their car alternatively of what's successful beforehand of them. Sometimes, they whitethorn person passageway imaginativeness with the reddish and bluish lights connected the squad cars and not truly seeing our officers that are retired connected the street," said Pizur.

It's wherefore helium precocious asked the Spirit of Blue Foundation, a non-profit that provides information instrumentality to instrumentality enforcement, for a grant.

The Greenfield Police Department received $8,000 to bargain 65 Guardian Angel devices.

"If we tin prevention 1 beingness with this Guardian Angel device, that's our goal," said Pizur.

Erik Thomas, who is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Waukesha-based company, says the portable devices tin clip connected to conscionable astir thing and are disposable up to 5 miles away. And, they're gaining popularity astir the world.

"All of the World Cup information officers volition person our devices connected for this year's World Cup," said Thomas.

You mightiness adjacent admit the devices from TMJ4 News sum of the Milwaukee Bucks World Championship. When you look into the crowd, the blinking lights connected each of the officers are astir intolerable to miss.

"If you were down there, you saw each these officers wearing precocious reflective vests, but besides our airy bouncing disconnected that vest - truly benignant of creating a presence, letting everyone cognize wherever officers are," said Dan Keller, Guardian Angels Business Relationship Manager.

The institution says thousands of reviews beryllium however effectual the locally-made devices truly are.

"I was lasting successful the road, wrong a lane closure - and helium swerved and went into the ditch, and it was the Guardian airy that saved my life," 1 roadside idiosyncratic said successful a review.

"Most radical person ne'er seen thing similar this, truthful drivers are much adept to dilatory down, determination implicit and a batch of times adjacent rotation the model down and accidental 'hey what is that connected your shoulder,' said Keller.

It's a instrumentality utilized crossed Southeast Wisconsin and astir the world, and it's not conscionable for roadside workers and archetypal responders.

"It tin clip connected to anything, from your kids' bicycle to putting it connected your dog," said Keller.

A instrumentality that tin alert reckless and distracted drivers that thing oregon idiosyncratic is worthy looking retired for.

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