New York City funeral home was storing bodies on ice in trucks

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A New York City funeral home used moving trucks loaded with ice to store the bodies of dozens of coronavirus victims after running out of space, police officials say.

and confirmed deaths to COVID-19, the disease associated with the virus, according to data collected by the city.The officials said 50 bodies had been stored in four trucks, including rentals from U-Haul, outside the funeral home in recent days.

The owner told officials that he had been trying to do his best with an overflow of bodies, a problem they said was happening citywide.A neighbor called authorities after seeing liquid leaking out of the back of the trucks, the officials said, adding that the bodies were moved into a refrigerated truck Wednesday.Jonathan Dienst is a reporter for WNBC-TV in New York, leading its investigative reporting team and covering justice and law enforcement issues.

 

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You mean in Uhaul truck?

How many people in the country have changed their minds about venturing out on vacation to one of our countries great cities? NYC🤮 LA🤮 Seattle🤮 Chicago🤮Detroit 🤮 San Francisco🤮 Dirty Dirty Dirty

Desperation and perceived lack of alternatives will drive people to make very unwise choices

Unity82222320 What the Dems won't do to make Trump look bad. 😎😎

Wow, how’d ya like to unknowingly rent that truck?

Doing the best they can in this fucked up mess.

That is A criminal act. Water flow on the ground from molten ice is contaminated and will infect many by traveling on shoes.

Because everything was shut down ?

Horrific !!!

To provide a better and better product and service to more and more customers at a lower and lower price Or in this case lowering and lowering

they could have just moved them to other funeral homes.

Trump’s failure to act sooner caused everyone of those deaths. Shameful.

If it wasn't disrespectful toward the deceased, those bodies should be stacked up at Trump Tower.

I hope it’s a fake news

NYGovCuomo has blood on his hands.... CoronavirusLiar coronavirus DemocratsAreDestroyingAmerica LiberalismIsTheRealPandemic

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