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Flags at half-staff to honor first responder who died from COVID-19 complications

December 4, 2020 By WRN Contributor

Flags on government buildings in Wisconsin are at half staff through Saturday, to honor a first responder who died from COVID-19 complications.

Governor Tony Evers issued the order to honor Captain Kelly Lynn Raether of the Town of Ixonia Fire & EMS. She died on Thanksgiving after being exposed to and contracting COVID-19 while responding to emeergency needs for a COVID-19 patient.

Raether joined the Ixonia Fire Department in 2005 and was also a registered nurse at Aurora Hospital in Hartford and a nursing instructor at Carroll University in Waukesha.

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