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Offering fire departments an alternative to manual decontamination, the Zimek System is a rapid, safe way to decontaminate vehicles and buildings. Zimek is an acronym that stands for Zone of Interior Micro Environmental Kinetics. According to the Zimek website, the company's patented Micro-Mist rapid decontamination technology provides a touch-less, 360-degree micro-droplet dispersion application that automatically disinfects rooms, vehicles, or other enclosed environments, including firehouses, fire rescue units and ambulance/EMS vehicles.

Kurt E. Grosman, CEO for Zimek Technologies, explained, "We utilize the system to decontaminate fire-rescue units that frequently will transport hot patients, or patients with infectious diseases. We do it with something called a micro mist. We take a liquid particle and we knock it down to a level where it's roughly the size of the bacteria in viruses that it's tasked with killing."

This patented technology moves around an enclosed area on a three-dimensional basis killing toxic mold, bacterial and viruses. Grosman claimed that the call log tables in firehouses are frequently covered with a bacteria called Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA. However, Grosman stated that MRSA, Hepatitis-C and a number of new strains of relatively incurable infections that the CDC just recently sent out a notice on, are killed by Zimek Systems.

"What's unique about our system is it can use a number of different types of disinfectants to attack a particular type of infectious contaminate. And the price per minute to utilize any type of disinfectant is roughly 32 cents a minute," expressed Grosman. It would take between eight and ten minutes to treat a fire-rescue unit, done automatically. "So you don't have to worry about whether or not the firefighters are actually in there trying to wipe down areas that they could possibly miss that would be contaminated," said Grosman. "It'll decontaminate the fire-rescue units and all of their fire trucks, their bunker rooms wherever they put their bunker gear."

Kurt Grosman claimed that 150 fire departments and hospitals in the United States are using Zimek Systems to decontaminate their facilities. Zimek Systems is also working to expand their reach with the Department of Homeland Security and legislators in Washington, DC, to mobilize their systems throughout the US. "Not only for the health and safety of our firefighters, but to help them be first responders for the remediation of Anthrax spores," said Grosman.

Engineered to access, kill, and reduce the spread of infectious bacteria, viruses, and fungi, Zimek has invented the ROC and MAX Rapid Decontamination Systems. According to www.rkb.us, the MSRP for Zimek's MAX Decontamination System is around $85,000 and the ROC Decontamination System is almost $53,000. However, many systems have been purchased through the Department of Homeland Security's Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program.

For more information or grant help, visit www.zimek.com.

  
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Author:B. Brooks, A. Zevely, R. Marquart - FDNNTV.com