5/10/2020 Gov. Evers Announces New UV Decontamination Site in Sawyer County » Urban Milwaukee Become a Member - Member Login Search... price drop price drop Coronavirus Real Estate Politics Food & Drink Arts & Entertainment Membership1PC Non-contact Temperature Measurement... 1PC Non-contact Temperature Measurement Gun Meter Multi-purpose Non- $24 contact... Wish PRESS RELEASE Gov. Evers Announces New UV Decontamination Site in Sawyer County Site is a Product of an Impressive Collaborative Effort Between a Local Host and State Support By Gov. Tony Evers - May 2nd, 2020 07:01 am Latest Articles & Columns MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers today announced that Sawyer County will soon become the latest location in Wisconsin to Plats and Parcels: successfully implement a UV Decontamination System. Symphony Hangs New Sign by Jeramey Jannene “It’s no secret that the COVID-19 public health emergency has strained supplies of personal protective equipment (PPE) across Daily: Wisconsin Crosses our state and country, leading to shortages of critical supplies 10,000 COVID-19 Case including N95 respirator masks,” said Gov. Evers. “Once this Threshold, 400 Deaths by system is up and running, it will allow one of the more remote Jeramey Jannene areas of the Badger State to decontaminate at least 45,000 N95 respirators per month, ensuring that our frontline healthcare Op Ed: A Red County workers and first responders using PPE in Northwest Wisconsin Questions Federal Effort by can continue to do so safely.” Gregory Humphrey Healthcare workers and first responders using PPE in Northwest National Pandemic Study Wisconsin, as well as the rest of the state, are being asked to save Includes State Families by their used N95 masks for decontamination. Shamane Mills “Having a local decontamination site will provide a great benefit to Musicians Find Creative our Northern rural region residents of Northwest Wisconsin,” Ways to Perform by Mary Kate Sawyer County Emergency Manager Patricia Sanchez said. “We McCoy are sure to see a surge in the need for N95 masks in the next few weeks, therefore it will be extremely important to be able to reuse as much as we can.” https://urbanmilwaukee.com/pressrelease/gov-evers-announces-new-uv-decontamination-site-in-sawyer-county/ 1/52 5/10/2020 Gov. Evers Announces New UV Decontamination Site in Sawyer County » Urban Milwaukee The new Sawyer County site, which will support a large swath of Northwest Wisconsin, is thanks to an impressive combination of local host willing to take the necessary steps to house this unit, local volunteers, and state support as far as training and resources 19+ Gadgets That in order to bring it online. Are Selling Out 1PC Non-contact “The Sawyer County During Quarantine Temperature decontamination Measurement... site is a product of $24 people in this region Termómetro infrarrojo being used to digital de... View Now working together $14.97 $99.87 under difficult Press Releases circumstances, as 5 Pack Hand Sanitizer Gel Instant... there are already BBB Business Tip: Ways $6.80 $88 many good Your Business Can Impact partnerships and the Community by Wisconsin Wish relationships here Better Business Bureau along with people who are willing to volunteer,” Wisconsin Emergency Management Northwest Region Director Randy Books Battelle Critical Care said. “From the state level, they found out about the pressing need Decontamination System that we had here and quickly reached out. Now we are working Ready and Available for hand-in-hand with the state to conserve and safely reuse the Use in Wisconsin by Gov. limited PPE supplies that are in this area.” Tony Evers The Northwest region of Wisconsin was an area targeted by the Independent Business Wisconsin State Emergency Operations Center (SEOC) as a Association of Wisconsin location with a pressing need for this service. Currently, the region (IBAW) presents “Getting has only a limited supply of PPE. Wisconsin Back to Work and Other Concerns in a People in at least 11 counties, Sawyer, Bayfield, Ashland, Iron, Post-Covid World” with Price, Rusk, Barron, Polk, Burnett, Washburn, and Douglas, will be Robin Vos by Independent able to utilize the site. At least five area tribes, including the Bad Business Association of River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, Lac Courte Wisconsin Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Lac du Flambeau Band Read more Press Releases of Lake Superior Chippewa, Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, and the St. Croix Band of Chippewa Indians, will also be able to utilize the site. On Monday and Tuesday of this week, industrial hygienists from the Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene (WSLH) spent time in Sawyer County building the unit and training local staff to be able to run and utilize it. At this point at least 15 volunteers have been trained and will be able to run it, using the WSLH’s best practices. https://urbanmilwaukee.com/pressrelease/gov-evers-announces-new-uv-decontamination-site-in-sawyer-county/ 2/52 5/10/2020 Gov. Evers Announces New UV Decontamination Site in Sawyer County » Urban Milwaukee The device, which is housed in Sawyer County, utilizes the principles of mask decontamination set in place by Nebraska Medicine and the University of Nebraska Medical Center. To price drop price dr decontaminate an item, it is hung on a line and exposed to UV light. Too much light and the mask could be destroyed, while too little and it would not be decontaminated. “We are pretty excited about the possibilities of implementing the price drop methods pioneered by Nebraska Medicine, locally in our state,” said George Gruetzmacher, who serves an Industrial Hygiene Consultant-Engineer for WSLH. “For places like Sawyer County, we are able to provide the equipment and training to a local site, but the sites themselves need to put together the infrastructure in a 3 Most Popular comfortable and convenient way. Sawyer County has done an excellent job with doing everything needed to get a Transportation: City Testing decontamination site up and running.” New Bike Lane Dividers by Jeramey Jannene Sawyer County will be conducting final tests of the unit next week, and plan to start using it soon after. Eyes on Milwaukee: The Rise of The Bay View Home Sawyer County’s UV decontamination site is just one of many by Jeramey Jannene already in place in much of Wisconsin, and with capacity to service N95 masks and other PPE. These efforts are highlighted by Friday Photos: Five Fifty facilities already operational in Brown, Dane, and Kenosha Ultra Lofts in Deer District by counties. Jeramey Jannene In addition, the UV decontamination sites, this week Wisconsin received a delivery of 230,000 N95 respirator masks from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), providing a needed boost to efforts to obtain PPE for distribution in the state. FEMA has also informed the state that it will be receiving technology in the form of a Battelle CCDS Critical Care Decontamination System™ to help decontaminate N95 masks, which will help extend the life of these important supplies. DuuToo Real LED 54W UVC Germicida FEMA expects the Battelle Corporation to ship its system to (2) Wisconsin in the early part of May, with the system likely to be Shop now $149.99 ready for use later in the month. Once ready to go, the system will be able to decontaminate tens of thousands of N95 masks daily. More about the Coronavirus Pandemic Op Ed: A Red County Questions Federal Effort - Gregory Humphrey - May 10th, 2020 https://urbanmilwaukee.com/pressrelease/gov-evers-announces-new-uv-decontamination-site-in-sawyer-county/ 3/52 5/10/2020 Gov. 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