Heroic Rescue; 2 Hurt Train's Impact Injures Officer Freeing Woman in Van; Her Husband's Also Hit

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Headed to the Elm Grove Memorial Day parade in bumper-to-bumper traffic, Monica Ensley-Partenfelder found herself and her 2-year- old son directly in the path of a 94-car freight train barreling toward them, whistle blaring.

What should have been a festive start to the holiday instead turned into a frantic effort to save the woman and boy in the moments before the train struck their minivan head-on about 9:30 a.m. Monday.

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Heroic Rescue; 2 Hurt Train's Impact Injures Officer Freeing Woman in Van; Her Husband's Also Hit

A police officer, John Krahn, 41, assigned the routine duty of parade traffic control, sprinted to the scene and freed 40-year-old Ensley-Partenfelder, of West Allis. Her husband, Scott Partenfelder, 47, who was stuck in traffic in a different vehicle nearby on Juneau Blvd...

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