Free masks in Rochester

KIMT News 3's Annalise Johnson is finding out where you can get your hands on one.

And fifty.

/// beginning today ?

"* masks are required in indoor spaces in rochester.

At the start of the pandemic ?

"* the public donated roughly 4?

"* thousand masks to first responders and frontline workers.

Now ?

"* the city is giving what's left of those masks ?

"(back to the community.

Kimt news 3's annalise johnson joins us live.

Annalise ?

"* where can people get their hands on them?xxx live amy ?

"* i'm here at the silver lake fire station ?

"* which was actually closed before the coronavirus pandemic ?

"* but is being temporarily used to spread out firefighters.

Here ?

"* at any other fire station*- the library bookmobile ?

"* the day center ?

"* and the intercultural mutual assistance association ?

"* you can pick up a free mask.

All rochester police department squad cars also have a stash of masks to give to the public.

The effort is called "need a mask ?

"* just ask!"

T hope is that anyone who needs a face covering will feel comfortable coming to one of the locations to pick one up ?*- be able to comply with the city's new rule ?

"* and be a part of slowing the spread of the virus.xxxx for quite a long time, masks were in short supply, it was difficult to find them and prices were quite high if you went on the internet to try and find one, so hope nobody feels that way, and that was part of the idea of the program, to get these masks out to people who need them r?

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"*d tells me the first of distributing the masks went quite well ?

"* with masks at station 1 and 3 being particularly high in demand.

The city will keep handing them out until all are gone.

Live in rochester annalise johnson kimt news 3./// thank you annalise.

All of the donated masks were laundered ahead of time in the fire stations laundry facilities ?

*- but people are encouraged to wash them again once they take them home./// doing anything in this heat feels about unbareable