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Contractor donates medical gloves to Cherokee County Fire

Ben Looper, Wes McCall and his team at Southeast Restoration donate 7,400 medical gloves to Fire Chief Tim Prather, Battalion Chief of Support Services Marc Liscio, and Sgt. Bryan Thomas and Jason Cooper of Cherokee County Fire & Emergency Services. CHEROKEE COUNTY FIRE
Ben Looper, Wes McCall and his team at Southeast Restoration donate 7,400 medical gloves to Fire Chief Tim Prather, Battalion Chief of Support Services Marc Liscio, and Sgt. Bryan Thomas and Jason Cooper of Cherokee County Fire & Emergency Services. CHEROKEE COUNTY FIRE
By David Ibata
April 21, 2020

Cherokee County Fire & Emergency Services has accepted a donation of 7,400 medical gloves to protect responders from the COVID-19 virus.

With the outbreak of the novel coronavirus pandemic, Fire & Emergency Services quickly depleted its stock of personal protective equipment, especially medical gloves to help decontaminate fire stations, according to a department announcement.

Support Services placed orders for resupply, but most of its vendors were backed up on orders. Southeast Restoration, a general contractor specializing in insurance repairs, heard of the situation and on April 13 donated the gloves.

“This was a surprise and great news” said Cherokee County Fire Chief Tim Prather. “This will definitely help with maintaining our supply of medical gloves.”

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