Firsthand Look Inside Decontaminated Ebola Apartment
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DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - For more than a week, people have seen the outside of apartments belonging to Amber Vinson and Nina Pham, the nurses who tested positive for the Ebola virus.
For health, safety and privacy reasons cameras were kept at a distance from the contaminated apartments. Reporters and the general public were blocked by caution tape and police officers; so, getting a close look of what was happening inside or even near the contaminated apartments was impossible.
But Monday the CBS 11 I-Team got a hold of state documents from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) that gives viewers a never-before seen look inside Amber Vinson's apartment since being contaminated.
The carpet was completely ripped out of every room. Her bed was taken apart, cabinets were cleaned out and even her fridge was left empty.
But that's not all. Photos captured by TCEQ also show the scene outside. Cleaning crews were wearing full hazmat suits with air tanks and masks. It looks like for every person with a hazmat suit on there's a buddy next to him, making sure every piece of equipment is put on perfectly, all the way down to their boots. Windows and doors were completely covered during the process. And that same type of tarping was used on the grass and sidewalks nearby.
Once the crews were done inside they used a special area to scrub down, making sure nothing was left behind.
In all, more than 53 drums of hazardous waste were removed from Amber Vinson's home. There were a total of 79 drums of waste filled between Nina Pham's apartment, Amber Vinson's and the City of Dallas.
Documents investigative reporter Mireya Villarreal obtained show those drums sat in a secret location in Dallas until last Thursday when the feds finally gave a Port Arthur treatment location the go ahead to incinerate everything inside those drums.
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