Ventura County has received an unusual gift towards a project officials hope they will never need to use.
Kaiser Permanente gave the county nearly $25,000 to expand the body storage capacity at the Ventura County Medical Examiner’s Office.
The money will help with a $65,000 project to take the current capacity of 16 bodies to 48.
Officials say they hope they never need the capacity, but it would allow them to better cope with mass casualty incidents. The money came from the Kaiser Permanente Foundation.
