The Responder / Building a Skoolie for Emergency Response

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Our New Mobile Command Center w/ Sleeping Quarters

“JUST ARRIVED”

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It Was A Great Day

It’s New Years Eve and I was getting ready to start a new year  but the main reason today was a great day was because my bus was dropped off at the office today. Yes, you read this correctly my bus..

Why a bus?

Why, you ask?????  Well let’s dive in. My plan for investing in a bus was to turn it into a mobile incident command center with sleeping quarters for my company, they’re easily customizable, can be as high-tech as you need them to be, and they’re appropriate for a wide variety of uses especially for the mitigation field…

Through our twenty plus yrs being a family owned and operated business, especially in the last ten yrs, I have come to realize the importance of having a command center on some of our jobs and the problems that it could have solved by having one.

With a properly built mobile incident command center, Emergi-Clean, Inc., has the ability to provide enhanced services and control all of their necessary functions in a single area, all while being able to respond anywhere where we are needed. The plan is to use Solar Panels to power the MCC, as this will give us the ability to be off the grid and travel anywhere.

The Name

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that we’ll be calling our mobile command center, “The Responder”. How fitting, right? This beast will include multiple workstations, a kitchen/living area with sleeping quarters and even a bathroom. This will be a truly comprehensive solutions for overnight stays or on jobs that require a bathroom or even a cooling area.

Need more Reasons?

Well, let’s step back and look at the unit for what it is: a large bus. This is a great solution for staying safe and keeping dry! During extreme weather or dangerous situations, Emergi-Clean, Inc., and their clients will be able to shelter in a single area and continue to work or complete paperwork in a secure location that, again, is able to function off grid…

A long day at work and job location is far from HQ? Why not pull over and take a short nap safely. Take a shower if you feel dirty, grab a snack from our refrigerator these are all advantages of having The Responder on site.

Being prepared during larger events.

Large events like what, you ask?  We’ve actually worked for Richmond International Speedway during Nascar races… We’ve responded to mass shootings, city fields covered in needles. Our main goal with The Responder is to keep our employees prepared because with the right tools they are able to provide the best services.

Effective and efficient

Another solution The Responder provides is it will enable response to High-Risk Events effectively! When responding to a potentially high-risk situation / infectious disease mitigation such as a mass shooting or possible Ebola outbreak, there are many tools that Emergi-Clean, Inc., may require at the same time. By deploying The Responder, this ensures that all of these tools and services are readily available at the scene.

If your company is considering getting a Mobile Command Center of your own, you may be wondering whether a refurbished bus is a good investment versus purchasing an RV? We’ll let you know our thoughts at the end of this project!

Be sure follow along and check back for updates and to see the final product.
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Other Rodents

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Rodents multiply swiftly, and infestations may be extremely difficult to exterminate.

Identify and Prevent Rodent Infestations. You may never see a mouse or rat unless an infestation is severe. Look for signs of rat or mouse infestation: Rodent droppings around food packages, in drawers or cupboards, and under the sink. Nesting material such as shredded paper, fabric, or dried plant matter.
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Bat Cleanups

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If you have bats in the attic of your home or building, then you have large piles of guano, or waste, as well. Besides making your house smell bad, guano can cause a lung infection called histoplasmosis that is caused by inhaling the spores of a fungus that is carried in bat guano. Pests, such as cockroaches, are also attracted to guano, causing even more infestation. In addition, the droppings and urine can corrode wood and drywall.
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Raccoon Infestation

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Raccoon’s will get into any opening they can squeeze their heads through. They can rip into a roof’s overhangs, shingles, gable vents and where two roofs meet, or simply anywhere they sense a void. They can even get into the attic through crevices in the chimney.
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Dry Ice Blasting

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Dry Ice blasting is safe alternative to traditional cleaning methods is used for mold mitigation, fire restoration, graffiti removal and much more. A non-abrasive, non-conductive, non-poisonous cleaning process that uses a compressed air system with soft dry ice pellets that vaporizes on impact causing no secondary waste but removing over 99.9% of the contaminant. This process uses frozen Carbon Dioxide “dry ice” pellets that turn into gas upon impact causing the contaminant to break into small chips and fall to the ground. Since no abrasive chemicals are used this process is ideal to use in settings where there are young, elderly or sick people. The most common uses for dry ice blasting are graffiti removal, smoke damage, mold remediation and high grade adhesive removal. Please visit www.coldjet.com to find out other uses.

CO2 blasting employs 3 core factors:

  1. pellet kinetic energy
  2. thermal shock effect
  3. thermal-kinetic effect

Dry Ice Blasting optimizes blast performance by combining these forces and adjusting:

  • compressed air pressure
  • blast nozzle type (velocity distribution)
  • CO2 pellet size and density
  • pellet mass rate
  • flux density (particles per unit area per second)
  • Pellet Kinetic Energy

Pellet Kinetic Force

The Dry Ice Blasting process incorporates high velocity (supersonic) nozzles for surface preparation and coating removal applications.

Since kinetic impact force is a product of the pellet mass and velocity over time, the Dry Ice Blasting achieves the greatest impact force possible from a solid CO2 pellet by propelling the pellets to the highest velocities attainable in the blasting industry.

Even at high impact velocities and direct head-on impact angles, the kinetic effect of solid CO2 pellets is minimal when compared to other media (grit, sand, PMB).

This is due to the relative softness of a solid CO2, which is not as dense and hard, as other projectile media. Also, the pellet changes phase from a solid to a gas almost instantaneously upon impact, which effectively provides an almost nonexistent coefficient of restitution in the impact equation.

Very little impact energy is transferred into the coating or substrate, so the Dry Ice Blasting blasting process is considered to be nonabrasive.

Thermal Shock Effect

Instantaneous sublimation (phase change from solid to gas) of CO2 pellet upon impact absorbs maximum heat from the very thin top layer of surface coating or contaminant. Maximum heat is absorbed due to latent heat of sublimation.

The very rapid transfer of heat into the pellet from the coating top layer creates an extremely large temperature differential between successive micro-layers within the coating. This sharp thermal gradient produces localized high shear stresses between the micro-layers. The shear stresses produced are also dependent upon the coating thermal conductivity and thermal coefficient of expansion / contraction, as well as the thermal mass of the underlying substrate.

The high shear produced over a very brief expanse of time causes rapid micro-crack propagation between the layers leading to contamination and/or coating final bond failure at the surface of the substrate.

Thermal-Kinetic Effect

The combined impact energy dissipation and extremely rapid heat transfer between the pellet and the surface cause instantaneous sublimation of the solid CO2 into gas. The gas expands to nearly 800 times the volume of the pellet in a few milliseconds in what is effectively a “Micro-explosion” at the point of impact.

The “Micro-explosion,” as the pellet changes to gas, is further enhanced for lifting thermally-fractured coating particles from the substrate. This is because of the pellet’s lack of rebound energy, which tends to distribute its mass along the surface during the impact. The CO2 gas expands outward along the surface and its resulting “explosion shock front” effectively provides an area of high pressure focused between the surface and the thermally fractured coating particles. This results in a very efficient lifting force to carry the particles away from the surface.
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Enterovirus

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Noroviruses

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Hepitatis A, B, C

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HIV/AIDS

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MRSA

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