Firefighters in mobile teams vaccinate adult family homes

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Published January 21 2021

Bellevue Fire Battalion Chief Chuck Heitz receives a vaccine at Overlake Medical Center. Photo courtesy of Overlake

While many people in Phase 1A have received their first vaccines as of January 2021, the Bellevue Fire Department is deploying mobile teams of firefighter/emergency medical technicians to adult family homes, where staff and residents have yet to be vaccinated.

The fire department is not yet equipped with vaccine doses and instructions to schedule vaccinations for the public.

Current information about phases and locations for vaccinations is available at BellevueWA.gov/vaccines.