Crematories on double shifts, refrigerated trucks in parking lots as “extraordinary explosion” of COVID deaths stress Bay Area’s funeral industry

Crematories on double shifts, refrigerated trucks in parking lots as “extraordinary explosion” of COVID deaths stress Bay Area’s funeral industry

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https://www.siliconvalley.com/2021/02/07/crematories-on-double-shifts-refrigerated-trucks-in-parking-lots-as-extraordinary-explosion-of-covid-deaths-stress-bay-areas-funeral-industry/

When New York City was overwhelmed with coronavirus deaths last year, Casey Stone from Bay Area Mortuary was heartbroken by the news stories about “stacking bodies in trailers.”

So when the surge of deaths started hitting the Bay Area in recent weeks and three refrigerated trailers were brought into their mortuary parking lot in San Jose, she started a new ritual.