The Truckers Who Hauled Ebola

Think your job is dangerous? These guys haul Ebola. Meet the team at Texas-based CG Environmental, the hazmat cleanup crew that cleaned up all the potentially Ebola-infected belongings from the now-deceased Thomas Eric Duncan’s apartment and – along with Homeland Security – hauled it to a medical waste incineration facility to dispose of it.

Erick McCallum, the owner of CG Environmental, did an interview with Overdrive, in which he recounted the steps that needed to be taken to safely dispose of the potentially deadly materials.

First McCallum and the rest of his crew needed to sanitize and then disassemble Duncan’s apartment and fit everything into 140 drums, including a lot of stuff that “doesn’t fit into a drum unless you make it fit into a drum” such as beds, electronics, etc.

Next, the team loaded it on to their trucks and, under the supervision of Homeland Security, hauled the waste until they turned it over to Homeland Security officials who drove it the rest of the way to the disposal facility. The team accompanied them to unload the trucks once at the facility.

Though these guys are used to dealing with potentially hazardous materials, this was the first time they’d worked with an Ebola case. When asked wither or not his employees were worried about their safety during the cleanup, McCallum claimed they weren’t, saying “My guys know that if I won’t do it, they won’t do it.” True to his word, McCallum himself was right there with his team getting the work done.

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By Samuel Barradas.