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Team Rubicon Afghan refugee donations at Fort McCoy
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ROCKTON Teams of local officials and trained volunteers on Tuesday canvassed neighborhoods surrounding Chemtool in an effort to gather an initial assessment on the extent homes and businesses were damaged by last week s massive industrial fire.
Local officials and engineers were joined by Team Rubicon, a volunteer veterans organization that provides disaster relief, Laborer’s Disaster Response Teams and others. They interviewed home and business owners while gathering data that the Illinois Emergency Management Agency can use use to apply for federal disaster funding. We have volunteer teams going house to house, said Jodi Moyer, an EMS coordinator for Beloit Health System who volunteers with Team Rubicon. We are talking to the homeowners getting some data the county is going to utilize working in conjunction with IEMA. This is data collection. Each team has a list of questions that are asked that correlate to IEMA’s damage assessment software. They literally
BELOIT â âIâm so proud and so privileged to be here today.â
Those were the words of Beloit Health System Environmental Services Manager Johnnie Isabell, the first person to receive a COVID-19 vaccine in Beloit, as Wednesday marked what many believe could be a turning point in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Isabell was one of many frontline workers at the health system who received the vaccine jab to fight the virus. The health system received its initial shipment of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday, and the first inoculations took place on Wednesday in a make-shift clinic in the auditorium at Beloit Memorial Hospital. The health system received enough doses to treat all high risk employees of the health system, officials said.