The Bar Harbor Fire Department will administer COVID-19 vaccines to all Hancock County first responders with help from Blue Hill-based Peninsula Ambulance Corps. After learning how to provide PCR tests to essential workers, the fire department participated in the additional training needed to vaccinate other emergency staff. Ongoing since Dec. 1, the fire department has been performing COVID-19 tests on essential town personnel. Firefighters in Bar Harbor were trained to conduct the nasal swab test and send it away for testing, so learning came easy when instructed how to administer the vaccine. Assistant Chief John Lennon explained how the department is in phase one of a soft rollout where they are vaccinating only licensed Emergency Medical Service providers.