Firestone, a small town in Liberia whose main produce is rubber, did what other nations were not able to do -- stop Ebola at its very beginning.

In a community of 80,000 people, a Firestone rubber farm in Harbel, Liberia first confirmed about Ebola on March 30 when the spouse of an employee returned home from caring for a disease-stricken woman in northern Liberia.

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A single day after confirming that she had the dreaded virus that has already taken more than 3,500 lives in 2014 alone, the Firestone managers "went into crisis mode" and tried to find a hospital to accommodate the Ebola patient.

When they realized that no medical facility can take care of her, they immediately devised a plan to isolate and stop the virus in its tracks through team work and the wise use of Google.

"Unfortunately, at that time there was no facility that could accommodate her. So we quickly realized that we had to handle the situation ourselves," Philippines-born Firestone Managing Director Ed Garcia recalled.

Within 185-square-mile plantation, the management of Firestone Liberia cleared out a hospital area to create an isolation unit for the Ebola patient and distributed hazmat suits, which have been generally used in dealing with chemical spills, to the medical personnel.

They also quarantined the woman's family to avoid further spread of the virus.

Like most other Ebola patients, the woman died of the disease soon after she was put into isolation although no one else caught the virus-not even members of her family or the staff who transported and cared for her.

Since news of the stoppage of Ebola in the community reached Monrovia where the virus had expanded in August, several patients came to the only hospital within the massive rubber plantation seeking treatment.

Containment of the virus had become top priority for the community which expanded its isolation ward with 23 more beds and an annex.

Leading the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's team in Liberia, Dr. Brendan Flannery has lauded the community's resourcefulness and innovative way of dealing with the disease.

He noted the Firestone's dedication to quarantine possible people who may have acquired the disease and monitoring them closely.

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