Bed Bug Blog

Hudson County Sheriff's officers who showed up at a Jersey City home this morning looking for a weapon in connection with a domestic violence incident were greeted by an infestation of bed bugs, prompting a the fire department to set up a decontamination tent in the street.
Ten residents of the building - at Wilkinson and Ocean avenues - as well as five sheriff's officers were quarantined in the two-and-a-half story building while fire officials brought people out to scrub them down in a special shower set up at the scene.
Two men were taken out of the building in handcuffs shortly before noon, even as officers dressed in full hazmat gear with oxygen masks went into the home.
Jersey City Fire Director Armando Roman said sheriff's officers were immediately bitten by the bugs when they entered the home this morning; officers also found drug paraphernailia, he said.


Author: Jason Fink