Coronavirus Florida: Live updates for Thursday, Dec. 24
2:05 p.m. | Jacksonville firefighters begin getting COVID-19 vaccine as the year of the pandemic winds to a close
It has been a tough year for Jacksonville's firefighters, suiting up for viral protection to help hundreds sickened by the COVID-19 virus as they see dozens of their co-workers quarantined due to exposure or worse.
On top of that, firefighters have been burned while battling a ship fire on Blount Island and as they looked for a victim in a burning house, and injured when a fire engine rolled over on Interstate 95.
So when the first firefighters received the Moderna vaccine Wednesday to combat COVID-19 as they prepare to help administer it across the city, Chief Keith Powers said he was glad that his unites "got it this quick."