Associated Press
Many Tri-County area public safety personnel are among the first wave of people getting their COVID-19 vaccinations.
Phase 1 priority groups in the Restore Illinois coronavirus vaccine distribution plan include frontline health care workers with EMT licenses. Peoria Fire Department Battalion Chief for EMS Roland Tenley said all of the department’s 165 firefighters and paramedics qualify in phase 1A.
“We’ve gotten through our first batch of firefighters and paramedics that were interested in the vaccine, and this week we re actually going through our second dosages that became available,” said Tenley. “We had just short of 57% of our staff request the COVID vaccine, and 77% of those have received it so far.”
minutes after that. so the town, very solemnly remembering that, particularly on the site where the rescue workers stood for a minute and paused to remember those live that were lost and they have to continue looking for them. the conditions now, extremely difficult. the temperature here has been cold today and with the rain on top of that, the rescue workers have been suffering from exposure and from fatigue. temperature around 48 degrees. feeling like 41. so going through that mud, which is as thick as glue, very difficult. sapping the rescue workers body heat, making it immensely difficult going. the fire department battalion chief was saying as he was escorting the press pool around that everybody is wet. everybody is cold. but there is a drive and determination by people, local people, families that are affected to still go out there in the desperate hope that anybody could still be alive. they re trying to get locals to manage their expectations cause it s now been a week. and