{"id":320330,"date":"2020-04-03T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T20:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=320330"},"modified":"2020-04-03T06:00:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T20:00:14","slug":"thank-you-first-responders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/thank-you-first-responders\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you, first responders!"},"content":{"rendered":"
Gov. Ralph DLG Torres and Lt. Gov. Arnold I. Palacios pose with members of the Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services Station 1 in Susupe yesterday to personally thank and relay the community\u2019s gratefulness to the first responders in the Commonwealth\u2019s fight against COVID-19. (Office of the Governor)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Gov. Ralph DLG Torres and Lt. Gov. Arnold I. Palacios, yesterday, visited the Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services Station 1 in Susupe to personally thank and relay the community\u2019s gratefulness to the first responders in the Commonwealth\u2019s fight against COVID-19.<\/p>\n

First responders include police officers, emergency medical technicians, physicians, nurses, firefighters, and many others who rush towards where there is a crisis, oftentimes, risking their own safety. <\/p>\n

\u201cThank you for all the sacrifices,\u201d Torres said. \u201cI wanted to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the sacrifices that you\u2019re doing and continue to do. We have a long way to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now, I want to tell all of you\u2026my concern is your safety and the safety of our community. At the end of the day, we all go home\u2026to our families,\u201d the governor added. <\/p>\n

Palacios echoed Torres\u2019 message and extended his gratitude to the families, and children, of first responders. <\/p>\n

\u201cOn behalf of the greater Commonwealth community, thank you to each and everyone of you. We want you to know that we certainly appreciate your family, your children, for understanding. It\u2019s hard. There\u2019s no easy way to say this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Palacios also reminded all first responders to do whatever is necessary to be safe, to practice social distancing, and to follow all the directives that the government is asking the public to observe, in order to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. \u201cTake care of yourself, because if you take care of yourself, then you can take care of your family [and] you\u2019re going to be able to take care of your community.\u201d <\/p>\n

The lieutenant governor also asked the DFEMS management and leadership to be on top of the needs of all members of the DFEMS family. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a global issue. The danger of this is exponential, 10 times, a hundred times, a thousand times more than what we are used to. \u2026Things are still evolving, new things come out everyday, but your community is grateful. The community depends on you to be safe,\u201d Palacios added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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