Keys Energy Services wants to notify residential customers with special needs of the Special Needs Registry available through the Monroe County Social Services Office.
The registry helps Monroe County Emergency Management Personnel identify residents who would need assistance during evacuations and sheltering because of physical, mental, cognitive impairment, or sensory disability.
Residents with special needs are asked to call the Monroe County Special Needs Registry at 305-292-4591 or log on to http://www.monroecounty-fl.gov/index.aspx?NID=148 by May 31 to ensure they are accounted for in advance of hurricane season.
2/3/2021
Cumberland rolls out town-based vaccine effort
Jonathan Polak, deputy chief of the Smithfield Emergency Medical Services, hands out assignments to John Pliakas, chief of the Cumberland EMS, during a COVID-19 vaccination clinic for ages 75 and older at Smithfield High School last Saturday. (Breeze photo by Charles Lawrence)
CUMBERLAND – Cumberland Emergency Services personnel are uniquely equipped to administer the COVID-19 vaccine independently, so the town is undertaking its own effort this week after senior citizens in most Rhode Island communities went to centralized regional locations over the weekend.
Chief of Emergency Medical Services John Pliakas said vaccines were to arrive on Monday through the state-supplied vaccination program and be distributed during the week.
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ALBANY COUNTY - On a home visit this week, paramedics gave a shot and stayed to watch for any reaction. You could see the relief that they had that they were getting the vaccine, number one, and then number two, that in the cold and in the weather, they didn t have to try to figure out how to get out of the house and get to a site to get the vaccine, said Lieutenant Scott Bowman, who was one of the paramedics.
Lt. Bowman is with the EMS division of the Albany County Sheriff s Department. They were concerned about how they were going to park and walk to the site to be able to get the vaccine. And obviously they d reached out to their physician s office and not had any luck there, so they were very grateful that we solved that problem for them, said Lt. Bowman.