KVRR Local News
February 10, 2021
Highway Patrol reports 45-year-old Kandyce Blumhagen died last Friday at Sanford Health in Fargo.
Blumhagen’s vehicle and another vehicle crashed head on on Highway 46 in the early evening hours of January 12th.
The other driver, 49-year-old Alan Peterson of Forman, was pulled from his vehicle by a witness on scene before it started on fire.
He was taken to Essentia Health in Fargo with injuries.
The crash remains under investigation.
Co-workers scrambled to rescue a man whose logging equipment fell through the ice in northern Minnesota, trapping him inside the vehicle's cab as it flooded with water. Roy Davis, 45, was logging in Lake Hattie Township on Saturday when the machine he was operating broke through a frozen area on the edge of a swamp, according to a news release from the Hubbard County Sheriff's Office. The .
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Many assisted living facilities changed visiting protocols, or eliminated them entirely.
Long-term care facilities will also be receiving vaccine soon.
Schaefer said once FCPH receives its anticipated vaccine sometime early next week the agency will set up a site to administer the vaccine and invite first responders to come in to get a shot.
Originally, workers like emergency medical providers and fire department workers were included in the category of those who can be first in line for the vaccine from the public health agency, but Schaefer said law enforcement workers were recently included as well.
Schaefer said while it appears there will be a gap between vaccine supply and the needs of FCPH early on, she stressed that that gap is expected to shrink quickly with the arrival of additional vaccine deliveries.