LFD and LPD joint training takes place Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday

La Follette Police’s Special Response Team conducts a drug raid in May.
A May La Follette Fire training session covered rescuing a patient over an embankment.

LAFOLLETTE, TN (WLAF)- “We don’t want folks to be alarmed, because of what we ‘re gonna be doing Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday,” said La Follette Fire Chief Jimmy Pack. The La Follette Fire Department’s Medical First Responders Unit and La Follette Police’s Special Response Team (SRT) will cross-train around town the first half of this week.

La Follette Fire and La Follette Police cross-trained Monday morning at the La Follette Library building.

“We’ll start at 8am each day and go until that training session is completed,” said Chief Pack. (WLAF NEWS PUBLISHED-07/28/2025-NOON)