MONROE — Two Green County Residential Home Care providers worked together to solve a crisis at one of the two agencies’ facilities.

In the late evening of Wednesday November 29, the fire prevention system at Glarner Lodge in New Glarus failed, causing widespread flooding throughout the facility. Glarner Lodge is an assisted living facility on the campus of New Glarus Home.

All of the residents were then evacuated. The staff at Glarner Lodge quickly contacted the families of the residents under their care and some of those families were able to move their family members into their homes. A place was needed for the approximately 20 remaining residents. The Administrator at Pleasant View Nursing Home, Maria Johnson, was then contacted. It was quickly agreed that the residents could be brought to Pleasant View, located in Monroe.

The logistics of such an exodus of 20 seniors had to be precisely and quickly executed. A bus from New Glarus schools was brought in, and the New Glarus Fire Department, New Glarus EMS, and Monticello Fire Department were called in to provide lift assist as many of the residents had to be lifted onto the bus.

Meanwhile, at Pleasant View Nursing Home, it was all hands on deck as administrator Johnson called in her executive, maintenance, and house keeping staff and volunteers to help make the transition as smooth as possible, working well into the night. The residents of Glarner Lodge were safely and comfortably moved into their awaiting rooms at PVNH.

The well orchestrated event was the cooperation between multiple agencies resulted in a safe and rapid resolution to the crisis.