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DPHD: COVID-19 vaccine available to homebound residents
By Gary Budzak - gbudzak@aimmediamidwest.com
Homebound vaccination partners (L to R): Julie Bates - SourcePoint FIRST service coordinator, Lt. S. Coontz - Delaware County EMS, Erin Rohrer - City of Delaware Fire Department service coordinator and Capt. A. Matteson - City of Delaware Fire Department.
Courtesy | DPHD
One of Delaware County’s most vulnerable populations the homebound are now able to receive the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination.
“In an effort to reach our community’s most vulnerable residents, a COVID-19 vaccination partnership allows homebound residents to receive their vaccination through one of our emergency partners in the comfort and safety of their home,” the Delaware Public Health District posted on Facebook April 30.
Fire crews in Claymont called in backup and dozens of trucks from Pennsylvania and Delaware responded.
The chief says 54 firefighters dumped water on the flames; it took crews more than an hour to control the fire. The roof collapsed into the third floor, eventually through the third floor. All firefighters were outside by that time, said Harris.
Everyone who lives in the 18 apartments damaged made it out safely too, but some say they need help. The Red Cross has been called in to assist. Everything s gone, said resident Darlene Hull. She says she s counting her blessings. I thank God for everything. None of us got hurt. Everyone s fine. And that s the only thing I can look at right now, that we made it out of there, Hull said.
Yanique then did a remarkable thing for a 7-year-old. He picked up the phone and called 911. Um, can you please come help me - there s a fire, Yanique can be heard saying. What s the address? asked the dispatcher. It s Rice Drive, said Yanique. It just started firing. I ran down to my grandma. What s on fire? asked the dispatcher. It s the whole house. Can you please come? said Yanique.
Firefighters arrived just in time to pull the great-grandmother out of the house who had fallen unconscious near the door. She was taken to Jefferson University Hospital for treatment.
Authorities deemed the fire which started on the back porch accidental, saying it was caused by a malfunction of a pellet stove in the rear of the home.
BEAR, Delaware (WPVI) A young boy is being credited with saving his family after a home went up in flames due to a pellet stove malfunction in Delaware on Thursday. I was upstairs with my baby cousin, said 7-year-old Yanique Rainford Jr. recalling the scary moments after a fire broke out inside his grandfather s home on the 200 block of Rice Drive in Bear.
Yanique was in the house with his 2-year-old cousin Liam Rainford and his 92-year-old great-grandmother Rosamond Rainford. And then I came downstairs to get water and then I saw a fire, Yanique said.
Yanique says he ran upstairs to get his baby cousin out of the house and ran back in for his great-grandmother.