The DeKalb County Fire Department stored lifesaving medications in a building without central air conditioning, according to Channel 2 Action News.
The drugs are supposed to be kept between 68 and 77 degrees, or room temperature, but when Channel 2 investigative reporter Erica Byfield toured a fire supply facility with a temperature gauge, she measured temperatures above 85 degrees in a hallway.
Fire supply is where you will find extra flak jackets, tools, flashlights, medicines — almost everything a firefighter would need to save a life.
A county-owned thermometer in the drug room read 81 degrees.
“It’s not acceptable,” Dr. Cedric Alexander, DeKalb County’s public safety director, told Channel 2.
He admitted Byfield’s questions led him to call for an audit of every single drug in the building.
“It’s not a comfortable situation for us, but we’re going back,” Alexander told Channel 2. “I asked for a complete assessment to be made.”
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