The Carbon County Corner’s Office is now armed with better equipment to help carry out its day-to-day operations.

In April, the coroner’s office was awarded $22,975 from the National Network of Public Health Institutes through a grant called the Infrastructure Support for Medicolegal Death Investigation Offices.

Included with it were seven printers, seven Nikon P10000 cameras with accessories, 14 toners and seven drums for the printers, as well as a $7,000 upgrade for reporting software (Quincy Tech).

Carbon County Chief Deputy Coroner Gerald Jones said they received everything in July, and explained the significance of the new equipment that’s now at their disposal.

“It gives the coroner’s office tools that we’re better able to do our jobs and to take quality photographs of our different scenes that we’re at, and also to better document and print out the information that we need for every one of these scenes,” Jones said. “It’s a savings of that amount to the taxpayers of the county; not a penny spent out of taxpayers’ funds.”

The savings is of the utmost importance to the office, Jones said.

“We operate on a tight budget,” he said. “And this allowed us upgrades for our office, and the people of Carbon County.”

Carbon County Coroner Robert Miller said he has seven deputies.

“We all have the same kind of equipment, and we all do death investigations the same way now,” Miller said. “It’s so we can do the proper death investigations.”

Jones said that the coroner’s office is always looking to apply for and have the opportunity to receive grants.