At Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s daily coronavirus briefing Tuesday, L.A. City Fire Chief Ralph Terrazas provided an update on his department’s COVID-related efforts. He also offere…
“We’ve focused in four primary areas,” said the chief, the first of which is standing up coronavirus testing sites throughout the city. Terrazas said these sites were initially staffed by fire department personnel.organization, led by actor Sean Penn, we’ve been able to transition to a volunteer model.
“It seemed very sensible for us to relieve highly skilled first responders, in our case the Los Angeles Fire Department, from having to man these sites,” said Penn. “We were able to take their training at the directing of Mayor Garcetti, and be able to pass the training on to our staff and volunteers. Which meant that each site we picked up, 20-25 firefighters were able to get back to their emergency response duties in the city of Los Angeles.
Terrazas had nothing but praise for the operation today. “I must say that the volunteers from CORE have been doing an excellent job,” he said.Garcetti, for his part, announced that, with CORE’s assistance, the city has delivered nearly 400,000 COVID tests — 392,000, to be exact. As a reminder, anybody can get tested. There are more than 30 locations across the city and county, and we have the capacity to test over 21,000 people per day. By tonight, we will have tested approximately 392,000 since this crisis began.
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