BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- Maryland National Guard Brigadier General Janeen Birckhead was appointed by Gov. Larry Hogan to lead the Equity Task Force to ensure the statewide COVID-19 vaccine rollout is equitable."I'm here to offer you an opportunity to be healthy, and to make your community healthy, and the only thing I can do is to be here time after time," Birckhead said.CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE:The task force visited churches, hospitals and even went car to car to build vaccine confidence in communities of color."We're bringing it to you in the language that you speak in the community that you...…BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- Maryland National Guard Brigadier General Janeen Birckhead was appointed by Gov. Larry Hogan to lead the Equity Task Force to ensure the statewide COVID-19 vaccine rollout is equitable."I'm here to offer you an opportunity to be healthy, and to make your community healthy, and the only thing I can do is to be here time after time," Birckhead said.CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE:The task force visited churches, hospitals and even went car to car to build vaccine confidence in communities of color."We're bringing it to you in the language that you speak in the community that you...WW…

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — At least 21 people were taken to area hospitals after an explosion at the Baltimore Gas & Electric building in downtown Baltimore Wednesday morning.Eyewitnesses told WJZ they heard and felt a large explosion just before 8:30 a.m. Then, they saw scaffolding fall from the building in the 100 block of West Fayette Street.The city’s firefighters union said when crews arrived, they “were met with injured people on the ground, injured window washers clinging to their safety lines 12 stories up, and an active fire on the 16th  floor of a hi-rise building.”A total of 23...…BALTIMORE (WJZ) — At least 21 people were taken to area hospitals after an explosion at the Baltimore Gas & Electric building in downtown Baltimore Wednesday morning.Eyewitnesses told WJZ they heard and felt a large explosion just before 8:30 a.m. Then, they saw scaffolding fall from the building in the 100 block of West Fayette Street.The city’s firefighters union said when crews arrived, they “were met with injured people on the ground, injured window washers clinging to their safety lines 12 stories up, and an active fire on the 16th  floor of a hi-rise building.”A total of 23...WW…

BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- At least 21 people were taken to area hospitals after an explosion at the Baltimore Gas & Electric building in downtown Baltimore Wednesday morning.Eyewitnesses told WJZ they heard and felt a large explosion just before 8:30 a.m. Then, they saw scaffolding fall from the building in the 100 block of West Fayette Street.The city's firefighters union said when crews arrived, they "were met with injured people on the ground, injured window washers clinging to their safety lines 12 stories up, and an active fire on the 16th  floor of a hi-rise building."A total of 23...…BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- At least 21 people were taken to area hospitals after an explosion at the Baltimore Gas & Electric building in downtown Baltimore Wednesday morning.Eyewitnesses told WJZ they heard and felt a large explosion just before 8:30 a.m. Then, they saw scaffolding fall from the building in the 100 block of West Fayette Street.The city's firefighters union said when crews arrived, they "were met with injured people on the ground, injured window washers clinging to their safety lines 12 stories up, and an active fire on the 16th  floor of a hi-rise building."A total of 23...WW…