Many myths surround crime scene cleaning. Find out the most common misconceptions about crime scene cleaning and why professional expertise is vital.
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Who Covers the Cost of Unattended Death Cleanup?
Who Covers the Cost of Unattended Death Cleanup? Dealing with death in any form can be emotionally taxing and pose practical challenges. The cleanup process requires special attention due to the potential biohazards and emotional difficulties involved. An unattended death can pose questions, challenges, and hurdles on top of it all. Often, the most pressing …
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9 Questions To Ask When Hiring a Crime Scene Cleanup Company
9 Questions To Ask When Hiring a Crime Scene Cleanup Company If a crime scene occurs in your space, you want to promptly hire a company to clean it up. However, while hiring the first team you see may be tempting, you may be doing yourself a disservice. The last thing you want to add …
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What to Do When You Come Upon a Crime Scene
What to Do When You Come Upon a Crime Scene Encountering a crime scene can be a shocking and distressing experience, whether you stumble upon it unexpectedly or witness it firsthand. Knowing how to respond and what steps to take can make a significant difference in preserving evidence, ensuring safety, and assisting law enforcement authorities. …
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Difference Between Cleaning and Sanitizing a Crime Scene
When dealing with the aftermath of a crime at a crime scene, whether it’s a burglary, assault, or homicide, the cleanup process is often as crucial as the investigation itself. Crime scenes can be harrowing environments, filled with potential biohazards and emotional distress. In these situations, it’s essential to distinguish between cleaning and sanitizing to …
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The difference between a Crime Scene and a Trauma Scene
Crime scenes and trauma scenes are terms often used interchangeably, but they represent distinct situations with unique characteristics and implications. While both involve elements of tragedy and potential danger, understanding the differences between them is crucial for law enforcement, forensic experts, and mental health professionals. Let us delve into the disparities between crime scenes and …
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When Do I Need a Crime Scene Clean up Team in Arizona?
Encountering a crime scene is a traumatic experience, and the aftermath often extends beyond the immediate investigation. Once law enforcement concludes their work, there’s a critical aspect that needs attention: the cleanup. Crime scene cleanup involves the meticulous removal of biological and chemical hazards, ensuring a safe and sanitized environment. In Arizona, as in many …
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Lending a Helping Hand: How to Assist in Trauma Scene Cleanup Without Getting in the Way
Trauma scenes can be overwhelming and emotionally challenging for everyone involved. Whether it’s a crime scene, a severe accident, or a natural disaster, the aftermath can leave a lasting impact on the people who witness or experience it. While professional cleanup crews are often called in to handle the bulk of the work, there are …
How Are Valuable Items Dealt With by Professional Trauma Scene Cleanup Companies?
How Are Valuable Items Dealt With by Professional Trauma Scene Cleanup Companies? When responding to a biohazard cleanup call, we often field questions about potentially high value items, antiques, or items of sentimental value that may be present on scene. Many professional trauma scene cleanup companies, including Affinity Bio Solutions AZ have experience with these …
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Why Can’t a Body be Identified After a Couple of Days
Death is the end of the road but not for the body. The body will have to go through forense, but it can become challenging if the body starts decaying. Decaying sheds the body parts, making them unidentical to the living human. After a long time, primary parts of the body have decayed, almost impossible …
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What Is A Biohazard?
What is A Biohazard? State and Federal Regulations Regarding Biohazard Cleanup A common question we get asked by client’s is whether the presence of blood and bodily fluids at a trauma scene constitutes a biohazard and whether any contaminants can be safely thrown away by the family. In online searches for information, client’s often find …
Home Content and Furniture Restoration After An Unattended Death
Home Content and Furniture Restoration After An Unattended Death in Arizona How can a Professional Arizona Crime Scene Cleanup Company Help with Content and Furniture Restoration After an Unattended Death? Trauma scene cleanup in Arizona is a detailed process that can become more complex depending on factors such as time of discovery, severity of the …
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How Do Crime Scene Cleaners Clean Up the Ground?
How Do Crime Scene Cleaners Clean Up the Ground? Blood is difficult to come off any material it comes in contact with, especially fabrics, porous materials, and others. A further challenge is after cleaning the scene. The fact that no blood is visible on the scene doesn’t mean there is no trace of blood left. …
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Do I Have To Use A Professional In A Crime Scene Clean Up?
Do I Have To Use A Professional In A Crime Scene Clean Up? Facing a crime scene all by yourself is not encouraged. The job has many hazardous incidents and contaminants that could take a toll on your health. Despite this, a professional service cleanup is cheap and has the extra benefits of taking some …
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Crime Scene Cleanup Hydroxyl Generation & Ozone Generation
Hydroxyl Generation and Ozone Generation in Crime Scene Cleanup and Other Odor Removal Situations A variety of ways exist to remove crime scene odor after a death cleanup and other odors such as those associated with tobacco odor cleanup. Each process has its potential benefits and drawbacks, two methods, which can be considered quite similar, …
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How Cleaners Sanitize After a Trauma or Dead Body
How Cleaners Sanitize After a Trauma or Dead Body Death is an inevitable occurrence that no one is ready to deal with, especially when it involves a loved one. The dead body decomposes and requires the assistance of a bioremediation team to fix the environment and restore the place to a livable condition. This teamwork …
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What is an unattended death? How to clean up? What to do
What is an unattended death? How to clean up? What to do What is an Unattended Death? An unattended death is one that occurred with no one around to dial the emergency number. This incident can lead to days, weeks, and even months before the body is discovered. The common types of unattended deaths include: …
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What Happens to a Dead Body After 3 Days?
What happens to a dead body after 3 days Human decomposition happens naturally. Decomposition is the breakdown of tissues after death. However, decomposition happens depending on the weather, temperature, pH, moisture and oxygen level. This also involves the cause of death and body position. Human decomposition has the same stages which are four in number. …
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What Do Cleaners Do to Clean a Dead Body?
What Do Cleaners Do to Clean a Dead Body? The hardest part for a cleaner when attending to a dead body is the cleaning of the physical aspect of the individual’s passing. The clean-up process involves the elimination of blood, bodily fluid, biological materials, and other harmful items on the scene. Cleaners give such a …
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Who Cleans Up After Dead Bodies
Who Cleans Up After Dead Bodies Some television shows have made the public believe they know how to dispose of a dead body. When a dead body is found, law enforcement officials and other crime scene workers teamed up to investigate and collect evidence from the corpse. Fingerprints are further sorted, and the neighborhood is …
