As “deathcare” workers struggle to keep up with the coronavirus death toll, Wawa has donated a truck to New Jersey to store bodies of those who have died.
“Wawa sent a 53-foot refrigerated truck to Bergen County after hearing about our need for refrigerated trucks to help take the pressure off our morgues and funeral homes in protecting the bodies of those we have lost,” New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy tweeted on Wednesday.
https://www.businessinsider.com/wawa-sent-new-jersey-truck-to-store-bodies-amid-coronavirus-2020-4
“Their help is invaluable,” Murphy continued. “We’re so thankful.”
As of Tuesday, there are more than 396,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the US. More than 12,700 people have died.
According to the US government, 100,000 to 240,000 Americans may die from COVID-19, even if Americans observe strict social distancing guidelines. “Deathcare” workers in morgues and funeral homes have struggled to keep up as more people have died from COVID-19 in hotspots including parts of New York and New Jersey.
Credit: Business Insider
Really a fork lift
Robert Fecanin grandma Betty is heavy!
Robert Fecanin I was just thinking the same thing
Robert Fecanin I lifted bodies for 15 years. It took its toll on my arms, shoulders and back. People are just getting heavier so yes a forklift is needed. I’ve had some over 600lbs.
Just horribly tragic! Please destroy the truck afterwards.. Wouldn’t be appropriate to use it again.
VI Horvath it’s probably one they were taking off the road
Michael Masucci I hope so.. It’s so sad to even have to treat loved ones in this way. No funerals, no goodbyes. Just a cold truck.. OMG..how heartbreaking! ????
VI Horvath very true.
VI Horvath I was thinking the same thing! I hope they just donated to the state and write it off!
VI Horvath i was thinking the same thing.
Angela Santoro please let it be so.
VI Horvath I was thinking the same thing ????
My thoughts exactly
They using that truck again lmao
VI Horvath agreed
Hope these trucks are not going to be used again for food deliveries. No more WaWa food for me
Mylie DonVera I’m hopeful they will not be
Mylie DonVera it’s probably one they were taking off the road
Ocean County Scanner News hopeful is not he right answer. Leaves doubt .
Mylie DonVera Only Wawa can answer that question if they are taking possession of the truck again and using for food transportation.
Michael Masucci just as New York trash is transported in boxed trucks across state lines that carry food products. They are not even cleaned. Most have return pick ups of food products after the trash was dumped. Fact.
Mylie DonVera I would hope since Wawa is making it public that what I said was true.
Mylie DonVera it said “donated”
Michael Masucci come on. We didn’t fall off a turnip truck.
Lori Mitchell what does that prove. That trailer will go somewhere.
Michael Masucci yeah temporary.
Michael Masucci a lot of things are made pubic that are not true also.
Mylie DonVera wow u sure are special. It was donated. It’s not coming back.
Mylie DonVera my husband said the same thing
…donated to collect bodies. Then when it is finished holding all the bodies it will be sold to someone else. So the saga continues.
I know I’m in the business.
God Bless all during this difficult time. Stay Safe….and love your families.
Mylie DonVera yep, power wash with bleach and return to service.
What?
Sad to say is isn’t unusual these days folks
I miss normal ????
Ann Bastardi I’m starting to forget what normal is like..and if this is the new normal I don’t like it.
Welp There’s probably a lot of dead things in our food that pass by food inspection but….. this I could’ve done better with out knowing.
So sad for the souls of these people. That’s what matters folks.
Wawa is most likely giving them a trailer they were going to take off the road.
What’s going on with these bodies? Aren’t families having them cremated or buried? NY is burying bodies In a mass grave in a park because they do t know what to do with them. How is there no facility to handle this in the biggest city in the world?
Glenn Spina There are too many.
Glenn Spina No New York is Not lol
No they are NOT burying bodies in mass graves.
There’s strict laws against that
Sharon Lynn Huber they may bury them short term, was just reported on last night.
Glenn Spina there is a chain reaction with so many dying. Everything is bottle necked from hospitals, funeral homes all the way down to cemeteries, crematoriums . Until they catch up the bodies have to go somewhere. It’s a sad time for all involved for sure.
Ny is not using mass graves
Glenn Spina we only have had about 1500 deaths from covid-19 right? I deeply feel sorry for the families but that number is not high compared to rates elsewhere or recovery rates. Just seems odd that we are keeping multiple refrigerated trucks on hand
This area would be considered sensitive and would be tented so it’s out of the public eye. Wtf and do they just stack on top of each other.
I wish we would treat them with a little bit more respect than a forklift and a Refrigerated truck
Paula-Ann Casiero what would you suggest ? I love you fools criticizing but have zero solutions
Betty Wallace what an ignorant thing to say!!!!you don’t even know me and you’re calling me a fool however I would never want my family member being forklift into a truck you really don’t know what I want to say to you trust me!!!!!!!!
Betty Wallace how about a stretcher ????
Betty Wallace that’s exactly what I was thinking how dare anybody use a forklift they could use a stretcher Betty Wallace above here is just as disrespectful as they are!!!
Andrew Michael
It’s funny because they think people aren’t going to answer them back so they could run their mouth and when somebody calls them out it’s crickets!!!
Paula-Ann Casiero she wanted to hear a solution theres one
Andrew Michael and a great one might I add!!!❤️
She got my blood boiling so I didn’t have an answer LOL…. that’s the Italian in me ????????♀️unfortunately me and this idiot live in the same town!!!!
They are bringing more then one body out at a time
Does no one realize if they donate it that it’s a tax right off wawa was probably just getting rid of one or two trailers they weren’t using not like refrigerator trailers are that expensive for a multi million dollar company
Mike Volker you win the dumbest comment posted to date
There is DOT statutes about corpse storage and transport
Joseph Todaro unfortunately many of the “rules” have been thrown out the window; including in hospitals.
Janet Avon i agree but Google it, there is specific rules about Dept of transportation and this type of thing
Joseph Todaro they are not transporting them, it over flow storage for the hospital morgues until the funeral homes pick them. Most hospitals have very tiny morgue cause funeral usually pick up within 2 to 3 days so their not alot of bodies left in the morgues for long.
Fear mongering
Michael A Hildebrandt seriously! Was the picture really necessary ????♀️ awful ???? These details are not needed, could have just said Wawa is helping and left it at that.
Michael A Hildebrandt Truth and transparency. We are all adults here.
not fear mongering. its truth. its what’s happening. and yes the pictures are necessary bc people dont listen and this is only half of what’s really happening. when they have to put someone you love in a refrigerated truck then we’ll talk about your fear mongering thoughts again.
Melissa Magabilin I live in BERGEN COUNTY! Hackensack hospital (the one taking the biggest hit in nj) sent home 423 recovered victims! Show some hope!
Michael A Hildebrandt 423 critical or 423 tested?
Patrick Duffy 423 released
Rack and Stack them
Using a food truck! Yo! I am never eating ar wawa again. No disrespect food the dead and I’m sorry but a food truck????
Andrew Rears , I was thinking the same thing, or sanitize the shit out of it, but still…????
pretty sure wawa has other trailers for food you actually think after bodies of people that died from a virus would be put back into use for food smh wawa has like 75 trailers hello
Hence the word DONATE
Andrew Rears they are donated no longer using
Patrick Duffy yup yes I do!
That’s what I am saying they are donating and no longer being used. Lol sorry I don’t get people do they really think they are going to take them back after and use them lol
Nakia Walker-Johnson
Jaime W-Davis oh heck no! A food truck
Nakia Walker-Johnson they did it in NY too…
Hope they’re not planning on getting that truck back. Not trying to be funny.
Kelly Warren Omg was thinking the same thing ????
Kelly Warren do you know what DONATE means
Wow
Thank you WAWA
This makes me want to never go to wawa
John Cavalier I was just thinking the same thing after I read that headline
John Cavalier cause they DONATED a truck look up what donate means
Andrew Michael Thanks dingleberry
John Cavalier welcome schmuck
Andrew Michael fun more words to look up ????????????
Some of your comments are hysterical, it’s pathetic
There is DOT statutes about corpses and transportation
So for those who have no clue, Dont worry your TP and hogies wont go in that trailer , holy crap
Joseph Todaro cant fix stupid, right?
Joseph Todaro right? jesus.. the level of stupidity. this is why we are still where we are today… people actually think wawa is going to use that trailer again ???????? that’s what they’re worried about. not the fact that loved ones are in there.. but where the hell their next hoagie is coming from smh
Those are people’s relatives now can we please mask up
How awful. I just want to crawl in a hole and cry.
Is THIS news, really necessary?
Sherron M Wilde
What are you talking about? Tell me how this is NOT news please?
Ocean County Scanner News did not say it wasn’t news, is it really necessary to keep the fear going. Oh, I know, supposed to keep people home. There are many on this planet that will NEVER EVER abide. How about stating some positivity.
Sherron M Wilde
We share positive stories as they surface. We deliver news, good and bad, and we tell people the truth without sugar coating.
Ocean County Scanner News You all do an amazing job.. Ty!
Maybe some people seeing their loved ones forklifted into a Wawa truck will encourage them to stay the hell home!
Ocean County Scanner News
I know right? Wishful thinking, they still insist “it’s overplayed, only the flu, governor full of crap, don’t wear masks, it’s fake new. I pay taxes, I do what I want”
I ???????? they don t use those trucks again to transport food
Desiree Lamoot Field I was thinking the same thing
Look up the word donate
Omg
Omg I cant with this. Just lost a friend today. So terrible
Ugh, horrible image????????
Hate to bust your bubble people. They always use refrigerator trucks when there’s a need during a disaster!
SO so sad do you really have to share this is very heart breaking to know what there being used for people are passing by themselves no family ugh ????
Of all things to be donated by Wawa they decide to donate in death
Connor Bechtle
Tricia Januska first I’m seeing that
Connor Bechtle It’s all on their page… They actually donate to many organizations through out the year… It sucks that they had to donate a refer truck but at least they did..
Every family members receive their love ones and buried in their cemetery.
????????
Welcome to the real world folks u never controlled anything.
I know a lot of funeral directors around the state, none have complained or said they’re overwhelmed.
Jessica Lynn Boccelli I’m sure my uncle would beg to differ
William Charles and the people I know say otherwise.
Jessica Lynn Boccelli what part are they at? He’s 20 minutes from nyc
William Charles ocean an some of Monmouth. Did you ever think about going to school for it??
Jessica… It’s a bit more serious than you think. I work for the refrigerated shipping containers and trailers, they are getting request left and right for trailers to be placed at hospitals as morgues bc the funeral homes can not house that many bodies plus the bodies hold the virus for a period of time. We have the containers and trailers set up all over. Example.. Christ hospital in Jersey City is currently using one from my customer for bodies that my guy is refueling to keep it running.
Jessica Lynn Boccelli ocean and Monmouth is not having the issue, north Jersey is along with NYC
Jessica Lynn Boccelli no I got a good job with the federal government
So sad ????????????
For those of you that think this truck will ever be used again for food transfer it will NOT!!!
Chris Ammann the headline says donated can u post the meaning of that word for the ones who dont know lol so dumb to even think that
Andrew Michael funny because most people only read the headlines and not the article!!! LOL
That’s horrible
Omg that’s awful…I can’t even imagine one of my loved ones or anyone being put in the back of a trailer…
Thank you wawa for your help with this tragedy..
Prayers
The Bergen County morgue is the smallest county morgue I can recall being at. That’s why they might need a truck but if things become a health hazard Which they technically are)?then the regional ME in Newark can take custody. The question is how full are they? The real issue is getting doctors to sign the death certificates in the required time. If they did it’s just figuring out final disposition(burial / cremation) and getting in line as I hear cemeteries are backed up on grave openings. The doctors are the main reason bodies are backing up. It’s time for the medical examiner to start signing after more than 48 hours if the doctor won’t sign. Then you wouldn’t need trucks.
The truck was donated it wont be use again by wawa to ship food just wanted all the people who dont know what donate means
From what I have heard.. they are donated and then burned afterwards.
That’s a whole new level of advertisement
Wtaf
They using those trucks again plse , get your head out your asses they will clean and disinfect them and they will be fine, btw sooner or later without funerals they just gonna burn the bodies, welcome to the real world folks they wouldn’t dare destroy a perfectly good truck to appease soft feelings all about the money
Help at all ends of the spectrum, is still help!
Hillel Dershowitz yes it is
So very sad ????
They need trailers to store a few hundred bodies? Sounds like bullshit to me. How many people die on a regular basis? How many overdose deaths are there? Now the state is overwhelmed ????
bullshit
why the fuck would this make the news? why isbt the numbers of people who have it n got through it being posted too ? how cone only death, destruction n opposing views of Trump is put up you fukn commies …..wake up