New Jersey’s Neptune Township EMS has become one of the first EMS departments in the nation to install a new in-vehicle disinfectant spraying system to protect its members and the residents of its community in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Designed by Frontline Innovations LLC, the unit features an onboard system to disinfect ambulances between emergencies and significantly reduces the time it takes crews to prepare for the next call, says Bil Rosen, EMS manager at Neptune Township EMS.
“We are committed, I am committed as the manager here, to keeping my staff safe,” says Rosen. “We’ve done a lot here to keep the staff safe. Decontamination of ambulances and equipment it’s not just COVID. We know there are bad bugs out there. Now we have a three-minute spray built into our trucks.”
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School district receives donation of bus disinfection system
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The MEDS system coats and disinfects surfaces before air drying.
The Bayonne School District has received a donation of two modular electrostatic disinfection systems (MEDS) from Frontline Innovations to disinfect buses, according to Superintendent of Schools John Niesz.
Bayonne-based Frontline Innovations works with McCabe Ambulance. Chief Mike McCabe explained how McCabe Ambulance was fighting the spread of COVID-19 by disinfecting ambulances with electrostatic spray between the transport of each patient.
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At the Jan. 26 open workshop before the Board of Education meeting, Niesz said the the devices will be installed on two school buses. He met with Frontline Innovations and McCabe Ambulance last week and witnessed the system in action.