FEMA is sending 14 refrigerated trucks to the state next week — on top of the eight that were already sent — to serve as temporary mortuaries.
The U.S. Department of Defense is deploying the Army Urban Augmentation Medical Task Force to the Rio Grande Valley, which composes of the southernmost tip of Texasto provide extra doctors, nurses and other health workers to local hospitals, Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday.
The Texas Funeral Directors group has sent three of its four refrigerated trucks, typically used during hurricane season, to South Texas, Allen said. Timothy Brown, manager of Ric Brown Family Funeral Home in McAllen, Texas, which sits in Hidalgo County, said up to 85% of the inquiries he's receivedhave been for Covid-19 fatalities. The funeral home is scheduling services about seven to eight days out when usually the wait time is a few days, he said.
Funeral homes just north of Hidalgo are starting to prepare as well. John Winstead, a funeral home manager at Seaside Funeral Home and Memorial Park in Corpus Christisaid his funeral home reserved an additional truck through a private company in case space is crunched, although they aren't at capacity yet.Nueces County Judge Barbara Canales told local NBC affiliatelast week that she received a letter from the county's medical examiner requesting an additional FEMA mortuary truck.
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