Buchanan County EMS Precautions (4-3-20)

Buchanan County EMS Precautions (4-3-20)

Responders put themselves in harms way everyday...even in times of a health crisis.

But that doesn't mean they aren't doing all they can to stay safe.

Kq2's kilee thomas spoke with ems workers on how they're dealing with the pandemic on the frontlines.

Ems responders risk their lives everyday to save ours "we have interacted with individuals within this community that were being investigated for covid."

During these unprecedented times, buchanan county ems responders are taking extra precautions.

Now when responding to a scene, ems workers are gearing up in full ppe for every call.

"you will see members of buchanan county ems out there in various levels of ppe, personal protective equipment, and some of it gets to the point where it almost looks like they're spacemen because they have full hoods on.

If you see these individuals interacting with your neighbors or with other people, do not automatically assume that person has covid."

Suit can look scary to onlookers, ems workers say it's just a matter of "since we interact with everybody for everything, we have to make sure that we err on the side of caution.

We want to protect our staff and we also want to protect the other people we're interacting with, the next patient."

Ems responders can't work from home safe...they're using higher levels of cleaning.

"we're utilizing extraordinary measures with uv lights, extra cleaning of the cleaning of the ambulances to protect the citizens and our staff because we still have to come to work everyday."

While it looks like a bug zapper...it's actually a virus zapper.

This uv light kills bacteria and virus's in a matter of 7 minutesemergency first responders use this uv light after every call they go on so while ems workers are out saving lives, they ask that you do your part to save theirs by practicing social distancing and stay home.

Reporting in st.

Joseph, kilee thomas, kq2 news.

With a battery life of 9,000 hours, buchanan county ems are on the list for at least one more uv