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Not just a firefighter, but horse trainer, Guardsman, handyman and cook. Heidi Beedle The firefighters who just showed up at your house for a medical emergency or to douse a neighbor’s house fire might have already worked 40 hours or more that week at a side hustle unrelated to their fire service duties. They may have cooked at a local steak house, pulled extra shifts with an area fire department or a private ambulance service, written mortgage loans, taught at a local college, installed hardwood flooring or worked on remodeling a house they are hoping to ...

Some Colorado fire department chiefs have asked Gov. Jared Polis' office to move their crews to the front of the line for coronavirus vaccines, alongside health care workers and long-term care residents and staff. Under the state's vaccine priority plan, which was released earlier this week, firefighters are part of the first wave of recipients. But they're below health care workers and those in long-term care facilities, and fire chiefs say that could mean they will have to wait "weeks and months" before receiving inoculations. "Why? Because the fire service is a critical key component in k...