On day two of Senator Warner's trip across the Commonwealth he was supposed to start by addressing Handley High School students in Winchester, and follow that up by attending a Kiwanis Club meeting in Harrisonburg and holding a roundtable with veterans in Staunton.

Instead, thanks to winter storm "Janus," which closed schools and businesses across Virginia, and cancelled all of our events, Senator Warner headed over to one of the local fire stations in Winchester to deliver donuts to the hardworking first responders stationed there.

Shawnee Fire and Rescue Station is a mixed company comprised of both volunteer and paid emergency responders. Senator Warner thanked each of the workers for their service, and told them how he was glad that, following his concerns, it was recently clarified that volunteer and mixed emergency service providers would not have to begin providing health insurance to their volunteer workers. If fire stations were required to provide health insurance to their volunteers, who are not paid, it could have decimated the ranks of first responders across the Commonwealth.

"I'm happy that we were able to work in a bipartisan and commonsense way to fix this issue," Senator Warner said. "The last thing we want to do is keep our first responders from serving their communities.”

Senator Warner then traveled to Harrisonburg, where he dropped off Court Square Coffee to the dispatchers working at the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Emergency Communications Center, before heading over to WHSV-3 news to speak with long-time anchor Bob Corso.

Finally, the Senator drove to Charlottesville, where he met with an undergraduate class studying the national debt before addressing MBA students on the importance of innovation in creating jobs.