Horseshoe Bay firefighters develop quick sanitation method
Nathan Hendrix/The Highlander
Horseshoe Bay firefighter Aaron Stewart and Lt. Jacob Esquivel are crew members who helped design and create the portable decontamination tool now being used by the department for sanitizing equipment as small as travel cases and as large as entire vehicles.
By Nathan Hendrix
Staff Writer
Necessity is the mother of invention, and in the age of COVID-19, the need for sanitation and decontamination is at an all-time high.
Concerns about surfaces that may transmit the virus motivated the firefighters with the Horseshoe Bay Fire Department to get creative with their methods for cleaning equipment. Using examples from other fire departments around the country, the first responders turned a standard oxygen tank into a germ-removing spray gun. …
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