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Accidental Apartment Fire Requires Scene Cleanup Expertise

Sunday, October 17th, 2010

Graham wanted to smoke one more rock. Although he had been getting high all night, he felt like he needed one more smoke to fully reach nirvana and feel no pain. What he failed to realize is that he had already reached a state where he could feel no pain. Even worse (although he didn’t think of it this way), he had lost all sense of coordination. Instead of using a regular lighter, he relied on a torch to ignite his rock. As he activated the torch several inches from his pipe, he knocked over a bottle of booze, grain alcohol actually, all over his clothes. After he belched out a few expletives he inadvertently pulled the ignited torch towards himself and started a fire that spread into a minor conflagration. His smoke alarm went off alerting his apartment manager who called the fire department.

The fire over all did not hurt his apartment too bad. Graham was a different story. Not only did he have to be rushed to the hospital for third degree burns but he also was placed under arrest. The crack – just a little because he had smoked so much there was little of his stash left – was confiscated and placed into evidence.

But the apartment did have to be cleaned. The police called in a crime scene cleaner who removed much of the burnt carpet, some of his tarred tissue and the remainder of pieces of furniture, drapes and flooring that were damaged. Then the crime scene clean up company disinfected and sanitized the entire apartment.

The apartment manager was most pleased. As Graham was going to be spending the rest of his lease locked up and such occurrence was grounds, under the lease, to invalidate his term, the manager could relet the apartment to a new tenant. Thank God he had the sense to bring in the crime scene cleaners. Not only did he get rid of a destructive bad apple but he had the chance to mitigate his losses with an apartment that looked better than anytime Graham was there.

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, toll free at 800-860-4268.

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Blood Scene Cleanup in Department Store

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

The manager of the large department store was tired. With just three days before Christmas he had been working fourteen hours per day minimum since the day after Thanksgiving. His feet were killing him and he was worried his store total sales would not reach last years figures. He needed to have three brisk days of business. At 8:30 p.m. he got a call from security that a shoplifting was in progress over in the computer and games department. As he approached the section he saw two of his security guards seek to physically apprehend the suspect. Fortunately they were behind an aisle that could not be observed by other customers at that point in time because customers were dispersed elsewhere.

As he got closer, he saw the perpetrator pull out a knife and stab one of the guards. He ran over and assisted the other guard literally tackling the man wielding the knife and immediately called his assistant manager to get emergency medical help and direct that they come around to the back of the store. He then called 911 and requested the police do the same. By 8:40 they both had arrived and the injured security guard was lifted on a stretcher and taken to the hospital. Further the police arrested the shoplifter.

His big problem now was getting that part of the store back into the shape necessary for it to be open to the public by the next morning and to be able to state unequivocally that there is no undue health risk that would result from shopping there. The police officer had recommended he call a blood scene cleaner company or trauma scene cleaner company. The company he called, Advanced Bio-Treatment, also did crime scene cleanups, accident scene cleanups, homicide scene cleanups, suicide scene cleanups, meth lab cleanups, odor removal cleanups and death scene cleanups not to mention staph infection scene cleanups so they were well suited for the task.

The person at the company with whom they spoke understood the gravity of the situation and the time constraints under which they had to operate. They sent out a crew that arrived about ten thirty p.m. and cleaned and decontaminated the affected area of the store by 2 a.m. As the manager lay down to get two or three hours of sleep before the two busiest days of the year he was able to sleep well because he had learned his security guard was fine and he knew his computer and games department would be open and immaculate in the morning.

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

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Meth Lab Cleanup After Drug Bust

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

The drug dealer’s girl friend took the man to meet the dealer outside a Kentucky Fried Chicken a few miles from where he supposedly lived. She took her boyfriend the money and he told them to wait there. Little did they know the man was an undercover police officer and that another unmarked vehicle was following him back to his house. The dealer returned with the crystal meth the man had purchased.

The man did this two more times over the next six weeks. At that point, the girlfriend, believing this guy was safe, gave him the dealer’s address and met him and the front door to exchange the marked bills for another quantity of the meth. At this point, recognizing they had more than enough evidence to secure a warrant went and applied for one with the magistrate judge. After securing it, they took three police units with six officers and executed the warrant searching the premises. It did not take long to find the meth lab, locate a huge amount of currency and arrest the dealer. After processing the scene, they contacted a certified meth lab cleaner company to come and assess the lab.

Under state law, the meth lab cleaning company which also conducts suicide scene clean ups, accident scene clean ups, staph infection clean ups, odor removal clean ups and other death scene clean ups in addition to blood scene clean ups and crime scene clean ups, had many steps to follow to do this. First, they had to ”survey” the lab, read all the reports and the waste manifest from the lab removal company. Then they had to prepare a remediation report and submit it for approval. Then they had to execute the plan, cleaning the lab. Finally they had to secure a third party expert to verify that the cleaning met regulatory standards. Then they issued a report to the appropriate authority stating what they had done and confirming its completion.

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.

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Serious Dangers of Staph Infection

Friday, June 11th, 2010

Infectious disease sanitization has always been a serious issue in society. However, as biotechnology and pharmaceutical science advance by leaps and bounds, the need for infectious disease control through professional decontamination and sanitization has become increasingly important. One of the most common and potentially fatal of all infectious diseases is a mutated form of staph infection which can spread quickly if not adequately contained.

In the early nineteen sixties, in response to the antibiotic methicillin which was used to treat staphylococcus aureus or staph infection, a new type of infection was formed. This resistant form of bacteria was designated as the methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus or MRSA. MRSA causes skin infections which manifest as boils, abscesses, cellulitis, sty, carbuncles or impetigo. As MRSA is contracted either by direct physical contact with someone who has it or contact with towels, surfaces, linens of other objects to which it has spread, the successful treatment of a particular individual with the infection will not ensure that other people who inhabit the same vicinity as the inflicted patient are free from the risk of infection. It is vital that, if someone in your school, home, retirement facility or office had the infection, a mrsa cleaner company be brought in to adequately decontaminate or sterilize the location.

MRSA cleaner companies usually also perform staph infection cleanups as well as crime scene cleanups, suicide scene cleanups, meth lab cleanups, odor removal cleanups and other death scene cleanups. As the mortality rate for these infections range from 4 to 10%, it is unwise not to take the mrsa cleanup process with the utmost of seriousness. Also many patients suffering from diabetes tend to get infected with the MRSA infection more easily than the rest of the population. So any place that has such individuals in residence or at work must certainly be subjected to the mrsa infection cleaning process.

If someone at your home, apartment building, workplace or other place of public congregation has MRSA infection or recently had it, you should immediately contact a professional mrsa clean up company to destroy any infectious bacteria that may still linger.

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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.

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