PHILADELPHIA - Firefighters, paramedics and EMTs from the Philadelphia Fire Department who are working on the front lines of the pandemic will receive the first of a two-dose coronavirus vaccination on Wednesday morning.
Emergency medical responders will be inoculated with the Moderna vaccine beginning at 9:30 a.m. at the Philadelphia Fire Department headquarters in Old City. "Philadelphia is currently receiving very limited quantaties of vaccine so the fire department is neccesarrily prioritizing the women and men who are on the front lines of this ongoing pandemic providing emergency medical care in every neighborhood in out city," Fire Commissioner Adam Thiel said.