Volunteers, Staff Heed the Call to Help with COVID-19 Vaccine Efforts in Santa Barbara County
A drive-up clinic across from Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital is among the sites working to get the shots into people s arms
Volunteer Maeve Devoy speaks to a COVID-19 vaccine recipient at the outdoor vaccination clinic across from Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital on Thursday afternoon. (Brooke Holland / Noozhawk photo) By Brooke Holland, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @BT Holland | UPDATED 12:09 a.m.
February 6, 2021
| 9:12 p.m.
One by one, vehicles filled with COVID-19 vaccine recipients this past week rolled into a parking lot nestled between Hollister and South Patterson avenues in Goleta. Masked volunteers and staff were ready to work.
PATRICIA MARTELLOTTI
SANTA MARIA, Calif. - Nearly a year into the pandemic, Santa Maria firefighters are now getting the COVID vaccine.
“The Vaccine insures me and my family that I’ll be able to come home safe at the end of the day,” says Battalion Chief Mike Farmer with the Santa Maria Fire Department.
Farmer says it’s been tough for firefighters to work during the pandemic, “Our fire fighters or engineers are dressed with every bit of PPE we can put them in from masks to eye protection.”
Farmer says given how closely crews have to work to put out a fire or respond to an emergency call at someone’s home, the COVID vaccine can be a game changer, I am excited about the vaccine, anything that can assist us in our our toolbox as we say as firefighters, to make us more readily available for the public and assist the public.
Man dumped from dumpster into garbage truck in Santa Maria
December 20, 2020
By JOSH FRIEDMAN
Buried in a pile of trash, he was being hauled away en route to the landfill, but then Santa Maria firefighters came to his rescue.
A man who was inside a dumpster in Santa Maria became trapped in a garbage truck after the dumpster was emptied into the receptacle of the trash-hauling vehicle Friday night. [KCOY]
Once trapped, the man started calling out from inside the back of the garbage truck. The driver of the truck heard the man’s calls, and the the Santa Maria Fire Department was alerted.