🌱 RIDH Urges Pediatric Vax + Young Ave Fire Victim Identified

Morning, neighbors! It's me again, Miranda Fraraccio, your host of the Providence Daily.

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Here are the top stories in Providence today:

1. The Rhode Island Department of Health is urging parents to vaccinate their children this week. Pediatrician Dr. Elizabeth B. Lange stated during a Facebook Live Town Hall, “getting our 5-11-year-old’s vaccinated is the best way to keep our kids safe.” School-based clinics, local pharmacy appointments, mass vaccination sights, as well as primary care providers are vaccinating younger kids. For more help, you can call 844-930-1779 or call 211. (WLNE-TV (ABC6)
2. Police have identified the victim of a deadly apartment fire on Young Avenue in Providence last week as 66-year-old Ernest Cartwright. When firefighters first attempted to make their way inside, Deputy Assistant Fire Chief Kevin Jutras said they were met with “hoarding conditions, high heat, and zero visibility” on the second floor, and were forced to exit and instead climb through the second-floor windows. The cause of the fire remains under investigation, though Jutras believes the hoarding conditions fueled the flames. (WPRI.com)
3. On Tuesday, Providence police saved a suicidal woman from the top ledge of the Biltmore Parking Garage on Eddy Street. (GoLocalProv)
4. Suspects were seen on surveillance footage etching racial slurs into frost on vehicles in a Providence College parking lot on Monday morning. (WPRI.com)
5. 22-year-old Katie Tornez, of Providence, has been charged with a DUI after she hit two state police cars and sent a trooper to the hospital on Monday morning. (WLNE-TV (ABC6)

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About me: Miranda Fraraccio is a born and raised Rhode Islander. She works as a freelance copywriter for content creation agency Lightning Media Partners and as an assistant producer for a live-lit storytelling show in Chicago. She holds a degree in Writing & Rhetoric and Communication Studies from The University of Rhode Island. In her free time, you can find her traveling, hiking, or photographing her neighborhood as a street photographer.