crime scene cleanups « Advanced Bio Treatment

Posts Tagged ‘crime scene cleanups’

Crime Scene Aftermath: University Shooting

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

The disturbed graduate student had had enough. Years of being ostracized and scoffed at would soon come to an end. On a spring morning on the university’s campus he walked in to a classroom and shot two students. Before the campus officials or police could respond, he walked to a different building and unloaded a series of shots killing several unarmed students and wounding scores of others, many physically and others mentally or emotionally. By the time the university issued a campus-wide lockdown and the deranged perpetrator shot himself, over a dozen people were dead.

The entire university community was in a state of deep shock. With security issues to address and memorial services to plan, one aspect of the response that the university officials were free from having to concern themselves with was the death scene cleanup. The university hired a death scene cleaner company which does accident scene cleanings, crime scene cleanings, homicide scene cleanings, blood scene cleanings, meth lab cleanings, odor removal cleanings and suicide scene cleanings. They reviewed the affected areas where the shootings took place. They further applied the appropriate solvents to get rid of the blood.

They removed all the shredded tissue and took care of other cleaning responsibilities. Then the death scene cleaners sanitized and decontaminated the crime scene and advised the university’s custodial staff about what they did and what they might want to be looking for in the future to ensure no hazardous or toxic materials reemerge. While the university would take years to fully recover from the tragedy, the crime scene cleanup aspect of the response was complete.

For more information about our scene cleanup services, contact ABT toll free at 1-800-860-4268.

Tags: crime scene cleanups, death scene, trauma site cleaning, workplace shooting
Posted in Crime Scene Cleanup | No Comments »

Death Scene Cleanup At Apartment Complex Robbery Gone Wrong

Friday, July 30th, 2010

Crime scene cleanup and homicide clean up is messy business. It requires a knowledge of crime scene investigation tactics and death scene cleanup technique. However, when there is a shooting at an apartment complex which affects the lives of many other families, a death scene cleanup company can make a real contribution to the community. This is just such a story.

The apartment complex was bifurcated in to two parts connected only by an unofficial path through the woods behind the buildings. Five men in one of the apartments discussed a plan to sell five weapons, two shotguns and three pistols, to some guys who lived on the other side of the complex. The kicker was that, after the “guys on the other side” showed them that they had the requisite money to purchase the guns, they would hold the guys up and take the money. They figured they could get away with it as the other guys were illegal aliens who had been working in the States for years but
never sought residency or citizenship.

When they went over to the “other side” one of the trigger-happy robbers started shooting killing three of the guys and seriously wounding another who had to have a bullet removed from near his chest and have his leg amputated. The police came but no one had seen it happen, and the only survivor, had not been in on the original deal so he had never seen these guys before and his observation of them lasted for only a few moments. After the police had the corpses removed, they advised the apartment complex to bring in a death scene cleanup company.

The death scene cleanup company, whose experience included suicide scene, accident scene, meth lab, odor removal and other death scene clean ups in addition to blood scene clean ups, first consulted with the police to verify all of the evidence they needed had been processed. Then they removed all the pieces of cartilage and tissue from the scene before cleaning all the blood from the site. They then applied decontaminants to this outside location. They concluded by assessing the area again and confirming to the property company and the police that they had completed their homicide scene cleaning.

This information was originally published as part of the Crime Scene Cleanup blog at http://www.advancedbio-treatment.com/blog.

The more the information about our scene cleanup services, contact ABT toll free at 800-860-4268.

Tags: biologically dangerous materials, crime scene cleanups, death scene, murder scene cleanup
Posted in Crime Scene Cleanup | No Comments »

Crime Scene Cleanup at Nightclub Shooting

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

In the alley behind the nightclub a stretch Hummer pulled up. One of the back passenger windows was rolled down. A few words, inaudible to all but the two young guys having the conversation, were exchanged. One of the passengers exited with a briefcase in hand. As he walked towards the nightclub, the man who had been chatting with him from outside the limo sent a text message to someone on his cell phone. Just moments later, two men, hiding behind barriers (a dipsey dumpster and a storage shed) fired a flurry of shots at the man with the briefcase who went down. The Hummer backed up and the windows lowered just enough to allow the barrels of two weapons to emerge. A firefight ensued. Within less than twenty seconds four people were shot dead and a briefcase that had been full of currency was breached and money was fluttering around the parking lot much of it stained red with blood.

In less than a minute the first police unit arrived and within two there were about six police vehicles with no less than nine officers on scene. A detective was dispatched to the location and a crime scene processing team was also requested. Several men were held for questioning. The area was processed and a crime scene cleaning company was called in to clean up the vicinity.

By the time the crime scene cleaners arrived, all the money had been collected and placed in evidence. Still there was blood everywhere not to mention shards of eviscerated flesh. With experience in murder scene cleanings, crime scene cleanings, homicide scene cleanings, suicide scene cleanings, blood scene cleanings, staph infection cleanings and mrsa infection cleanings, they had plenty of exposure to blood cleanup and human tragedies. Rarely though did they see a scene so brutally overwhelmed by carnage. As the crime occurred in a popular upscale party district of the city, it was imperative that the crime scene clean up company work diligently to complete their task so “business as usual” could commence as soon as possible in the area.

As the sun rose over the metropolitan area and this part of town, the homicide scene clean up company scoured the parking lot doing a thorough blood cleanup. While the homicide scene cleaning company finished their job by 8:30 a.m., the police detective knew from the conflicting accounts, his task of figuring what had transpired was going to take much longer.

This information was originally published as part of the Crime Scene Cleanup blog at http://www.advancedbio-treatment.com/blog.

The more the information about our scene cleanup services, contact ABT toll free at 800-860-4268.

Tags: blood scene cleanups, commercial property cleanup, crime scene cleanups
Posted in Crime Scene Cleanup | No Comments »

The Scene of the Crime Scene Cleanup

Friday, July 16th, 2010

To her amazement, her apartment looked cleaner than it had in months. In fact, it had not looked this clean when she moved in or, for that matter, after any of her regular cleaning lady’s weekly trips to her apartment. The reason she noted this was that, while she was off on business, a burglar had broken in to an apartment below hers. When one of the neighbors called the police, the perpetrator fled by climbing up the external fire escape to her apartment where he broke in through her window. The police followed him into her apartment, breaking down the door, and firing three shots at the burglar. Two of the shots hit him causing him to bleed profusely on her immaculate hard wood floors.

After the police arrested the man and collected evidence, they contacted the building management which put in an order to get the door fixed. They also contacted a crime scene cleaner company. This crime scene cleanup company, with its experience in homicide scenes, death scenes, trauma scenes and accident scenes, knew exactly what types of cleaning solutions were necessary to clean blood from the floors, one of the big selling points she was looking at when she rented the place. They also cleaned out all of the debris and glass near the window and removed all of the tissue separated from the burglar when he was shot. Then the crime scene clean up company completely sanitized the entire apartment from the cross contamination caused by police and medical personnel.

When she got back to the apartment she expected to have a weird feeling about the fact that a man had been shot there. But the thoroughness of the job done by the crime scene cleaners made it difficult, if not impossible to feel that way.

Contact Advance Bio Treatment for additional questions or services at 800-860-4268.

Tags: bio hazard cleanups, blood scene cleanups, crime scene cleanups
Posted in Crime Scene Cleanup | No Comments »

Crime Scene Cleanup — TV vs Reality

Friday, May 28th, 2010

Crime scene cleaner companies may not fulfill their duties with the kind of technology seen on CSI- Miami or with a cast of such glamorous stars frequently issuing witty lines to describe their investigation, but they do rely on the latest or most advanced cleaning products and they do have to utilize some technology to achieve their goals. Crime scene cleaner companies will often conduct suicide scene clean ups, accident scene clean ups, meth lab clean ups, odor removal clean ups and other death scene clean ups in addition to blood scene clean ups. In each of these an expertise related to identifying and removing certain chemical hazards is required. Also the further task of decontamination is necessary to complete the job.

This means the best types of products must be used as solvents and cleaning agents. A comprehension of a building’s infrastructure is often necessary as well. Certain monitoring devices have to be wielded to detect the spread of infectious diseases when it comes to mrsa blood infection clean ups or staph infection clean ups, another part of the crime scene cleaner companies’ repertoire.

Now every once in a while a member of the crime scene cleaner companies’ staff will have the opportunity to discover a certain fact or piece of evidence that a detective on the case may find useful or even vital to a particular criminal case. As this doesn’t happen very often, and as that is just a subsidiary product of their job, we don’t expect the networks to pitch a new pilot TV show that puts crime scene cleaner companies at the center. But we do expect that as time passes these companies will continue to rely on the latest materials and machinery to get the job done.

Tags: bio hazard cleanups, crime scene cleanups, decontaminate and sanitize, professional site cleaning, restoration, sanitizing infected areas
Posted in Crime Scene Cleanup | No Comments »