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LARM COVID-19

Volunteer Emergency Responder

Assistance Program

For over a hundred years, neighbors helping neighbors has
been a Nebraska tradition. This is epitomized by the work of
the volunteer rescue squad members and re ghters who
answer the call day or night to help their fellow
Nebraskans.

The LARM Board of Directors salutes these volunteers for
now serving on the frontline of a worldwide pandemic.

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LARM will pay $120 per day for a volunteer exposed to
COVID-19 in the line of duty while providing re ghting or
rescue squad services for a LARM member for the period the
volunteer is quarantined, for a total of up to 10 days.

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Doug Hanson, oug Hanson, LARM Board Chair and the Mayor of Hickman,
said the COVID-19 Volunteer Emergency Responder
Assistance Program has been implemented to help
volunteers who may have come into contact with COVID-19
on rescue calls.

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“Volunteer re ghters and rescue squad members are on
the frontline of the coronavirus disease in our Nebraska
communities. They can’t afford to miss work because of a
required quarantine as a result of a rescue call. As a risk
management pool for 170 governmental entities across
Nebraska, we want to provide needed assistance for these
communities,” said Hanson.

As of May 25, 11 volunteer re ghters and/or rescue squad
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members were exposed to the coronavirus as part of their
service to their LARM member municipality or rural re
district. They were quarantined and quali ed for $120 per
day as part of LARM’s COVID-19 Assistance Program.

For more information go to www.larmpool.org.

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