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Wormser’s comments come after Tuesday’s city council meeting, where members of the Lynchburg Firefighters Association claimed they're facing issues including low morale and mandatory overtime.

A Lynchburg fire captain who has been criticized in recent months for posting controversial political cartoons on his Facebook page has filed a lawsuit against the city and multiple individual officials, alleging they violated his rights to free speech and religion. The complaint was filed in Lynchburg Circuit Court by Lynchburg Fire Department Capt. Marty Misjuns in late March. The city, fire department, interim city manager, mayor and vice mayor are named as defendants in the lawsuit. The lawsuit claims the city took adverse employment action against Misjuns because of political cartoons he...

Lynchburg requests volunteers for vaccine distribution Lynchburg officials say the city is receiving more COVID vaccines these days.  A month ago, the city was receiving 300 – 500 per week. Now, that number is more like 800- 1500 each week.   Fire Chief Greg Wormser says they need volunteers to help at its vaccine center in the Candlers Station Shopping Center.  He says they need two kinds of volunteers, core and non-core: If you’d like to volunteer, find out more at lynchburgva.gov.

About 500 public and private educators received COVID-19 vaccines Saturday as part of Phase 1b at the Lynchburg region’s new mass- vaccination center. The event was a collaboration involving the City of Lynchburg, Lynchburg City Schools, the Virginia Department of Health, the Lynchburg Fire Department, the United Way of Central Virginia and the city’s emergency services department, officials said. “We’ve created this opportunity so that everybody in our region who wants a vaccine can get a vaccine,” Lynchburg Fire Chief Greg Wormser said. “The challenge is we don...

Lynchburg opens mass vaccination site for essential workers Lacking supply, it could be weeks before the location is open to the public Published:  Tags:  LYNCHBURG, Va. – Lynchburg city and health leaders have transformed the former T.J. Maxx store in the Candler’s Station Shopping Center into a mass vaccination site. “Our goal is to get vaccines into as many people who want them, as quickly and as efficiently as possible,” said Fire Chief Greg Wormser. The fire department partnered with Lynchburg City School nurses Monday to distribute vaccines to nearly 450 essential workers who ...