Riverside County frontline healthcare workers get Moderna vaccine in Riverside Hundreds of Riverside County first responders received their first dose of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine in Riverside on Wednesday. “I just received my first round of vaccinations,” Dean Veik, Cal Fire staff southern California region chief told News Channel 3. He said it was a bit of a predicament choosing whether to get the vaccine in the first place. “After reading some of the literature that has come out from public, private healthcare, epidemiologists, county health, I decided for my family for my department and our customer service that it would be a good idea so it kind of changed my mind with all the information,” Chief Veik said.