Sabre Media Coverage
2007
December 19 — The News-Times
Crews start fumigation on anthrax house
By Robert Miller, Staff Writer
DANBURY — Crews began to pump chlorine gas into a shrink-wrapped home on Padanaram Road here Tuesday in hopes of killing the anthrax spores scattered throughout it.
The process should close a section of Padanaram Road through today as crews work around the clock to first pump the gas into the house, monitor its levels for at least 12 hours, then remove the gas and sample the house for any anthrax spores left alive.
Michael Nalipinski, the on-site coordinator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, said Tuesday he expects all the spores to be killed.
"Using chlorine gas normally has a 100 percent success rate," Nalipinski said.
Nalipinski said Sabre Technical Services -- the private company the EPA hired to do the fumigation work -- also has an international reputation for eliminating anthrax from buildings using chlorine dioxide.
"There are other firms that bid on this project," Nalipinski said. "But Sabre was the one we wanted."
December 18 — The News-Times
Video: Anthrax work to close Padanaram Road
By Robert Miller, Staff Writer
DANBURY — As the work on cleaning anthrax from a home on Padanaram Road continues, environmental officials said Tuesday that they will have to shut down a portion of the road through today into Wednesday evening.
Video: Click here to watch a press conference held today outside the house.
December 13 — The News-Times
Anthrax fumigation to begin next week
EPA announces clean-up in Danbury house
By Robert Miller, Staff Writer
DANBURY — The work to kill anthrax spores inside a home on Padanaram Road -- on hold for more than two months -- should begin again in earnest next week.
The federal Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday it will fumigate the house with chlorine dioxide gas next week by surrounding the house with a tent then pumping the gas into it.
David Deegan, a spokesman for the EPA's Region 1 office in Boston, said that Sabre Technical Services of New York will do the work. The EPA said in early October it hoped to start the work in November.
August 21 — Ventura County Star
Fumigation completed at St. John's hospital
By Tom Kisken, Staff writer
The giant white tarp covering St. John's Regional Medical Center in Oxnard came down Monday as workers completed fumigating for mold.
"All has gone as planned," said Rita O'Connor, spokeswoman for the Oxnard hospital, which expects to begin moving equipment back in this evening.
Plans to reopen the busy medical center are still on track for Friday, pending approval from the California Department of Public Health, she said. The 265-bed hospital has been closed since Aug. 14. The hospital's adjoining medical office building reopened Monday morning.
August 18 — Ventura County Star
St. John's gets OK to conduct fumigation
Facility scheduled to reopen Friday
By Tom Kisken, Staff writer
Workers prepared to fumigate an Oxnard hospital Friday night after a final state approval was given late in the day.
They planned to work throughout the night, circulating chlorine dioxide gas through air conditioning into the 350,000-square-foot St. John's Regional Medical Center.
The fumigation was scheduled to be completed sometime today and then the air in the hospital will be chemically cleaned in a process that normally lasts four to six hours.
Officials of Sabre Technical Services, hired for the fumigation, said they hoped to begin taking the tent of white tarp off the hospital late today. Both Sabre and the federal Environmental Protection Agency will test the air for chlorine dioxide.
August 8 — Los Angeles Times
Oxnard hospital gets OK to close ER
St. John's intends to move out patients and shut down for two weeks for mold eradication.
By Gregory W. Griggs, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
In an 11th hour move, the state Tuesday granted approval to St. John's Regional Medical Center in Oxnard to shut down its emergency room at 7 a.m. today as part of a temporary closure to allow the hospital to prepare for mold fumigation.
The entire 265-bed hospital, which operates the busiest emergency room in Ventura County, will eventually close this month for two weeks in hopes of eradicating a mold problem that has plagued the hospital for most of its 15 years of operation.
May/June — Facility Care Magazine
Sabre's Facility Decontamination Technology Featured in May/June issue of Facility Care Magazine
Excerpt: Facility managers, engineers, and owners may be hearing about this technology for the first time as a remedy for mold contaminated buildings. In fact, the technology has been utilized since 2001 when it was first used to eliminate Bacillus anthracis (anthrax) from Capitol Hill, USPS, and media facilities that were contaminated during the post 9-11 bioterrorism incidents. The buzz surrounding this technology began as the process was used to clean up hundreds of moldy buildings in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. Commonly referred to as mold fumigation or ClO2 fumigation, there are many reasons why the entire structure ClO2 gas treatment is desirable over traditional alternatives.
March 8 — Borders Today
Sabre at sharp edge of Anthrax clean up at Smailholm
By Mark Entwistle
A NUMBER of villagers in Smailholm feel health chiefs have over-reacted in dealing with the anthrax scare at the local hall.
This week saw a 20-strong team of American experts descend on the village, where they have encased the local hall in a special white tarpaulin membrane ahead of pumping in chlorine dioxide gas to decontaminate the building after traces of anthrax were found late last year.
March 6 — BBC
Anthrax decontamination under way
A specialist US company has started decontamination work at a village hall in the Borders where traces of anthrax were discovered.
The spores were found in Smailholm during a probe into the death of drum-maker Christopher "Pascal" Norris, from near Hawick, last year.
Drumming classes were held in the hall, prompting investigations at the site.
After decontamination is complete further tests will be done before the building is given the all clear.
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