Best of BTB: Anaheim public safety agencies honor staff at UCI Medical Center with procession; health care workers say love goes both ways
0Editor’s note: As part of our 10th anniversary, Behind the Badge is sharing stories from our archives on Tuesdays and Fridays. This story is from April 14, 2020. Five years ago in January, COVID 19 was first reported in the U.S. Here is one way in which community, first responders and BTB responded at the time. Anaheim PD Sgt. Mark Lillemoen inched his patrol car past the cheering nurses, doctors, and other health care workers at UCI Medical Center in Orange, their beaming faces vivid despite the masks covering their mouths and noses. “It was really cool,” says Lillemoen, who…
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