Booze It & Lose It campaign kicks off; first responders honored - WITN

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GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - First responders were honored in Greenville Thursday morning during the launch of this year’s Booze It & Lose It campaign ahead of the Fourth of July.

The campaign, called Operation Firecracker, works to keep impaired drivers off of the road. Checkpoints will be set up in all 100 counties to help catch drunk drivers and reduce fatalities.

The kickoff event was held at the Greenville Convention Center and celebrated the hard work and sacrifices made by health care workers, emergency medical services, law enforcement, military personnel and other first responders during the pandemic.

The Governor’s Highway Safety Program director Mark Ezzell, Emergency medicine physician for ECU and Vidant Dr. Jason Hack, Pitt County Sheriff Paula Dance and U.S. Army National Guard Lt. Col. Charlyne Jacobs spoke at the event urging everyone to drive safe.

“Law enforcement will be proactively assuring our roads are safe from those that persist in drinking and driving,” said Pitt County Sheriff Paula S. Dance. “We want everyone to survive by calling a taxi, Uber, Lyft or a friend. This one decision - drive or don’t drive - will affect everyone on the road. Make it a good decision. Save a life. It could be your own.”

So far this year, 145 people have died in alcohol and drug-related crashes in North Carolina.

The Booze It & Lose It campaign runs from June 28-July 4. Law enforcement agencies are running sobriety checkpoints in all

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