A service truck driver was injured after his vehicle burst into flames at a busy shopping complex in Fairfield County.It happened just before 9 a.m. Saturday, March 6 at 590 Danbury Road (Route 35) in Ridgefield, just off the intersection …
Unions push Baker to back plan for firefighters to vaccinate educators, school workers
By John Hilliard Globe Staff,Updated March 7, 2021, 7:37 p.m.
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Freshman students in class at Brockton High School.David L. Ryan/Globe Staff
Unions representing teachers and firefighters expect to meet Wednesday with the stateâs Health and Human Services secretary on their proposal to have firefighters administer vaccine doses to thousands of school workers â a program they say would facilitate a more timely and convenient inoculation of educators across Massachusetts.
The meeting, coming just a day before K-12 teachers, school staff, and child-care workers become eligible for vaccinations at state sites, would make it easier for them to get vaccinated at their schools and during hours that accommodate classroom schedules, union officials said.
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Tim Dupin thought or at least hoped that Missouri firefighters, paramedics and other emergency medical services personnel would be among the first to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.
After months of feeling overlooked by elected leaders in the distribution of safety equipment and other resources, surely, Dupin thought, their role on the front line of the medical system would be recognized. They had, throughout the pandemic, responded to calls the way they always had: Without regard to whom or what they would encounter at the scene, interacting with people who could have the coronavirus, despite often having makeshift personal protective equipment and masks that were old, faulty or moldy.
A service truck driver was injured after his vehicle burst into flames at a busy shopping complex in Fairfield County.It happened just before 9 a.m. Saturday, March 6 at 590 Danbury Road (Route 35) in Ridgefield, just off the intersection …
A service truck driver was injured after his vehicle burst into flames at a busy shopping complex in Fairfield County.It happened just before 9 a.m. Saturday, March 6 at 590 Danbury Road (Route 35) in Ridgefield, just off the intersection …