Amber Vinson, the second Dallas nurse to contract Ebola, lives in the Village Apartments, just a couple miles south of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. It’s the biggest apartment complex in Dallas, with more than 10,000 tenants.
Vinson’s apartment is in a shady, wooded section called The Green just off Skillman Street. Outside a nearby coffee shop next to the DART rail, Michael Sale sat with his java and a cigarette. When he left his Village apartment this morning, he hadn’t heard the news. Now that he has, he’s concerned for Vinson, but not himself.
“That place is so well taken care of,” Sale said. “It’s spotless. The Village is almost as clean as a hospital. Really, it is.”
At the same coffee shop, standing outside, Suzanne Smith called Vinson’s diagnosis scary.
“And I think life as we know it will change. I think we’re all going to be scared to be out in in public,” Smith said. “We’re all going to have to wear masks and suits.”
Workers in their own hazmat suits started decontaminating Vinson’s apartment hours before the sun rose.
