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VACCINE from page 1A
OHA determines the prior-
ity and eligibility criteria for
COVID19 vaccination. Lane
County Public Health is current-
ly scheduling Lane County resi-
dents:
• Phase 1a, all groups
• Phase 1b, groups 1-5
• Phase 1b, group 6. This in-
cludes adults 45 to 64 with one
or more underlying health condi-
tions; migrant and seasonal farm
workers; seafood, agricultural
and food processing workers;
people living in low-income se-
FEMA from page 1A
The families and individ-
uals displaced by those
fires numbered more than
400,000.
The resettlement of those
people is ongoing and the
Federal Emergency Man-
agement Agency (FEMA)
is in charge of the federal
response to the fires and has
been involved in emergency
support efforts since the on-
set of the fires last summer.
FEMA is continuing to
address the needs of the
victims of the fires, which
includes providing shelter
for thousands of people left
nior housing, senior congregate
and independent living; individ-
uals experiencing houselessness
(sheltered and unsheltered); peo-
ple currently displaced by wild-
fires; wildland firefighters; and
pregnant people 16 and older.
• Phase 1b, group 7. This in-
cludes frontline workers as de-
fined by CDC, including the
U.S. Postal Service, food service
workers, grocery store workers,
journalists, utility workers and
more; multigenerational house-
hold members; and adults 16 to
44 with one or more underlying
health conditions.
without homes, businesses
or municipal support with a
place to live.
The regional spokesper-
son for the agency, Paul
Corah, explained the situ-
ation surrounding the sud-
den appearance of dozens
of manufactured homes in
the small town of Gardiner,
20 miles south of Florence,
on the west side of Highway
101.
“We are now at the six-
month stage from the wild-
fires that happened last
September, with over 4,000
homes lost thought out the
state, which has developed
into a housing crisis. FEMA
According to the governor,
“If you are a frontline worker as
defined by the CDC, when you
make a vaccine appointment for
yourself, make them for your
whole family, too.”
The governor is also asking
Coordinated Care Organizations
and commercial health insurance
providers to reach out to their
members with underlying condi-
tions to share information about
the importance of vaccinations,
and how to get connected to a
vaccine.
In addition, with the recent
spring weather, Brown warned of
has been in the state helping
get survivors back on their
feet by providing temporary
housing while they rebuild
their lives,” Corah said. “Af-
ter the fires, many survivors
had lost everything they
own and had no place to live.
So, with help from the State
of Oregon and Red Cross,
we placed many survivors
in hotels — which are great
for a short stay, but recovery
from a fire can take months
and years to rebuild.”
According to Corah,
FEMA can often help with
rent assistance. However,
most areas that had fire
damage lost rental homes
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powerful safety measures like
mask wearing and avoiding large
social gatherings.”
She also acknowledged the
growing number of vaccinated
people, especially with three vac-
cines now in use in the community.
Oregon has now administered
a total of 962,741 first and second
doses of Pfizer, 890,157 first and
second doses of Moderna and
45,256 single doses of Johnson &
Johnson COVID-19 vaccines.
Lane County residents hoping
to schedule their vaccine can do
so through www.LaneCounty.
org/vaxclinics.
March, but now has moved
the staging area for mobile
homes to Gardiner at the
old International Paper mill
site.
Corah said area residents
should be aware that, during
the next couple of months,
traffic will increase consid-
erably due to the coming
and going of mobile homes
being relocated to new RV
sites across the state.
The staging area in Gar-
diner is not open to the
public and there is secu-
rity to prevent vandalism
and theft, but there will be
an upcoming opportuni-
ty April 9 to get a close-up
The following are resources available for
people dealing with thoughts of suicide,
depression or other issues. While this list
is not comprehensive, there are dozens of
organizations able to help.
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that could have been avail-
able to survivors. The orga-
nization’s next option was to
bring in mobile homes so
survivors can have a place
to live. For that reason,
FEMA has built RV parks in
Lincoln, Marion, Lynn and
Jackson counties.
“We are now starting a
new RV park in Lane Coun-
ty as well,” Corah said. “We
need to provide 248 families
temporary housing state-
wide and we are now at the
half-way point on getting
mobile homes set up.”
FEMA had a staging yard
in Medford at the coun-
ty fairgrounds until mid-
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an impending fourth wave of the
novel coronavirus COVID-19.
Oregon has seen an increase in
cases and hospitalizations over
the past two weeks.
“It’s clear that, in Oregon and
across the country, the fourth
surge of this virus is at our
doorstep,” Brown said. “While
Oregon’s case numbers fortu-
nately haven’t matched those of
other states seeing large spikes,
our numbers are rising and we
are back on alert.
“The good news is, now when
we face a surge, we know how to
protect ourselves and others with
Mental Health
Resources
• 9-1-1: Call immediately if there is im-
minent danger to self or others
• National Suicide Prevention Lifeline:
1-800-273-8255, suicidepreventionlifeline.
org
• Nacional de Prevención del Suicidio:
1-888-628-9454, suicidepreventionlifeline.
org/help-yourself/en-espanol/
• National Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-
656-4673, online.rainn.org
• National Teen Dating Abuse Helpline:
Phone: 1-866-331-9474, Text: LOVEIS to
22522, www.loveisrespect.org
• Oregon YouthLine, teen2teen crisis
helpline: Phone: 877-968-8491, Text: teen-
2teen to 839863, youthL@linesforlife:org,
oregonyouthline.org
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration: Treatment in
look at the structures and to
talk with FEMA staff.
The agency will host an
open house at 2 p.m. to re-
view the work being done
locally and to offer tours of
the manufactured homes
stored in Gardiner. There
will also be FEMA repre-
sentatives on hand to an-
swer questions the public
may have related to the 2020
wildfires and the FEMA re-
sponse to those fires.
For
more
informa-
tion, visit www.fema.gov/
locations/oregon.
your area: 1-800-662-HELP (4357), find-
treatment.samhas.gov
• The Trevor Project, Suicide Prevention
Lifeline for LGBTQ youth: 1-866-4-u-Trev-
or (866-4887386), thetrevorproject.org
• Veterans Crisis Line: 1-800-273-8255
press #1, www.veteranscrisisline.net
Additional Local Resources:
• 90by30 Lane County: 541-346-7484,
90by30.com
• Community Support Team-Mobile
Crisis Response: 541- 997-3212, www.svfr.
org/community-support-team-cst
• Live Healthy Lane: LiveHealthyLane.
org
• Prevention Lane: preventionlane.org
• Safe Shelter for Siuslaw Students: 541-
590-0779, SafeShelterforSiuslawStudents.
org
• Western Lane Health Network: west-
lanehealth.org
In addition, Siuslaw News collaborated
with three other newspapers to talk about
suicide in the “Breaking the Silence” four-
part series in 2019. Read the first of these at
thesiuslawnews.com/article/recognizing-
the-signs-of-at-risk-students.
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