3 Rocklin Fire, 2 AMR Employees Quarantined After Exposure To Placer County Coronavirus Patient
ROCKLIN (CBS13) – The Rocklin Fire Department says three of their employees have been quarantined over their exposure to a coronavirus patient.
Health officials announced on Wednesday a patient with coronavirus in Placer County had died. It's the first confirmed death related to the disease in the state.
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The patient had been in isolation at the Kaiser Roseville hospital. However, county health officials said 10 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers and 5 emergency responders had been exposed to the patient and were now in quarantine.
Rocklin Fire announced that three of those five emergency responders are part of their department. The Rocklin Fire Chief, Bill Hack, told CBS13 his department among several others are now taking extra precautions on every medical call - per new CDC guidelines.
"They're going to wear respiratory protection and have eye protection. They're going to interrogate the patient from a small distance so they can determine whether or not they'll be a COVID-19 patient," said Hack.
The department stresses that they remain fully staffed.
"We need to make sure that we do everything we can to minimize the exposure of our people and to make sure we have firefighters here each day to protect our community," said Hack.
According to Placer County officials, the other two first responders exposed to the patient were part of American Medical Response.
Health officials said none of the workers or first responders have been exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19.
