OKT VFD Masks

An area fire department is stepping up to help their fellow first responders better protect themselves when responding to a call.

Centred up an area fire department is stepping up to help their fellow first responders better protect themselves when responding to a call... the central oktibbeha volunteer fire department spent the morning making hundreds of face shields for all firefighters and emts in the county.

The shields will be used to cover their faces when they're out working a scene .... responders say this is their way of being proactive and keeping everyone safe..

" this helps protect us from getting droplets in our faces, also for the ambulance, it can help protect them and the paramedics as they are trying to help patients get better.

I just realized we had a need for those, a lot of people are making facemasks, these clear face shields are in very short supply."

The face shields have been delivered to all volunteer fire departments in oktibbeha county.... additional ones are being sent to och.

The hospital helped pay for roughly 75 percent of the supplies used to make the face shields.