Shiloh
Editor, Senior Moderator
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/nyregion/ebola-new-york-hazmat-workers.html?_r=0
For New York Crew, Fighting Ebola With Brush and Cleanser
By BENJAMIN MUELLEROCT. 27, 2014
Around the time New Yorkers started fretting over the city?s first diagnosis of Ebola last Thursday, Sal Pain began drawing up plans for four decontamination chambers, customized for a cramped Harlem hallway.
The narrow dimensions of the hallway ? it was only four feet wide ? outside the fifth-floor apartment Dr. Craig Spencer, the Ebola patient, shares with his fianc?e was among the more difficult situations confronted by hazardous-materials workers in their efforts to contain the Ebola virus. The standard decontamination station, a bulging, inflatable unit, would not do.
So Mr. Pain, the chief safety officer for Bio-Recovery Corporation, which has cleaned Dr. Spencer?s apartment and the Gutter, a bowling alley Dr. Spencer had visited in Brooklyn, improvised. He lined the hallway walls with 6 millimeters of plastic on Friday morning, and then made a frame out of PVC pipe. About 12 hours later, after sterilizing everything from four bicycles to a cuticle cutter, the 10-member crew stood in the hallway and washed themselves with chemical and water showers...
For New York Crew, Fighting Ebola With Brush and Cleanser
By BENJAMIN MUELLEROCT. 27, 2014
Around the time New Yorkers started fretting over the city?s first diagnosis of Ebola last Thursday, Sal Pain began drawing up plans for four decontamination chambers, customized for a cramped Harlem hallway.
The narrow dimensions of the hallway ? it was only four feet wide ? outside the fifth-floor apartment Dr. Craig Spencer, the Ebola patient, shares with his fianc?e was among the more difficult situations confronted by hazardous-materials workers in their efforts to contain the Ebola virus. The standard decontamination station, a bulging, inflatable unit, would not do.
So Mr. Pain, the chief safety officer for Bio-Recovery Corporation, which has cleaned Dr. Spencer?s apartment and the Gutter, a bowling alley Dr. Spencer had visited in Brooklyn, improvised. He lined the hallway walls with 6 millimeters of plastic on Friday morning, and then made a frame out of PVC pipe. About 12 hours later, after sterilizing everything from four bicycles to a cuticle cutter, the 10-member crew stood in the hallway and washed themselves with chemical and water showers...