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Paul Maroun, a Tupper Lake volunteer firefighter, village mayor and Franklin County legislator, gets the first dose of his Moderna vaccination Monday as a member of the Tupper Lake Volunteer Fire Department.
(Enterprise photo â Aaron Cerbone) SARANAC LAKE Dozens of emergency medical service workers and first responders received their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine at Adirondack Medical Center’s in-house clinic over the weekend. Select EMS workers, firefighters and police officers are eligible for the vaccine in the first phase of the state’s distribution plan. In Franklin County, all first responders have been deemed eligible for a vaccine even if they don’t have EMS certification. That’s because in this rural county most first responders have direct contact with patients when they respond to calls for help, according to Franklin County Emergency Services Coordinator R
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Members of the Tupper Lake Volunteer fire Department fight an early-morning fire on Vachereau Street Thursday. The home was badly damaged.
(Provided photo â Jim Lanthier) TUPPER LAKE A home at 20 Vachereau Street was ruined in a fire early Thursday morning, according village Mayor Paul Maroun. The Tupper Lake Volunteer Fire Department arrived at the house around half an hour after midnight and fought the fire with mutual aid from the Piercefield and Paul Smiths-Gabriels fire departments’ engines and members. Maroun said it is hard to fight a fire in extremely cold weather, but that members did a good job. It was 10 degrees Fahrenheit out then, with 13 mile-per-hour wind.