The Springfield Fire Department has installed Naloxone Resource Distribution Boxes at each of the city’s 13 fire stations. Naloxone can quickly reverse an opioid overdose and save lives.
There are now more than 25 locations in Springfield where anyone can access the medication for free, no questions asked. The boxes have been installed in publicly accessible locations outside each SFD fire station, and anyone can access them at any time.
“Our mission is to serve our community,” said the Springfield Fire Department’s battalion chief Christopher Rouch. “And for us that means evaluating what the hazards, which ones we can address and then, you know, develop a plan of action, and so, when we still have members of our community dying from a preventable overdose, and we have these trusted pillars of the community, fire station properties where people feel safe to come and access resources, it just kind of becomes a no-brainer for us to do something like this.”…