Report reveals black mold in Dallas County EMS building
A new report found black mold in the Dallas County EMS building in Adel.
The report, which was conducted by Mold Inspection and Testing, found black mold along the walls and baseboards in the laundry room of the facility. Other mold was found on the back of a TV.
Mold was not detected in the air, so staff did not need to be removed from the building, but the Dallas County Board of Supervisors moved them to the County Administration Building anyway.
One of those workers included paramedic Clint Nelsen.
He says that while he and his staff have adequate resources to provide for patients, the infrastructure of the building struggles to meet the needs of staff.
"It's just the natural progression of things," he said. "If you are doing things right, and things are growing as Dallas County is obviously growing, the infrastructure that we set up in the late '90s, early 2000s, wasn't built to support what we now have based on call volume."
Considering Dallas County is one of the fastest-growing counties in the country, Supervisor Ken Chapman agreed that the infrastructure isn't as up to date as he'd prefer.
"I came to Dallas County as an EMT, and I operated as EMT out of that same building in 1976," he said. "Now, they've added on to the building since then, but it's basically the same building."
Chapman and EMS Director Kristin Brady say they're in the process of finding a way to keep the infrastructure up-to-date.
This could entail creating a new building, adding on to the current location, or repurposing another county building.
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