Crime Trauma Blood and Biohazard Cleaning

A crime cleanup service is a business charged with erasing the blood, debris, and other waste that is left behind when someone dies as the result of a crime, such as a shooting, stabbing, or even a hit and run. Once the police have gathered the evidence they need, it is the crime clean up service's job to step in and clean the home, business, or site. Typically, a crime cleanup service is also used to clean up natural death scenes and suicides. For example, this type of service may be used after someone dies of natural causes, but isn't discovered quickly, beginning to decompose and leaving behind a scene that may be too much for his family and loved ones to handle, both physically and emotionally.
A large part of what a crime scene cleanup company does is handle blood and other types of OPIM (Other potentially infectious material). Those who work in this field must be well trained in the safe removal of blood bourne pathegens that may contain diseases, such as HIV and hepatitis and MRSA. Blood-borne pathogens pose a serious health risk to humans and must be handled carefully to prevent exposure. If a family member or loved one was left to tackle this type of job, he would probably have great difficulty keeping himself safe and ensuring that the property was properly disinfected. Instead, many people choose to seek the help of a crime cleanup service.
A crime cleanup service is not at all like a traditional house cleaning or janitorial service. It won't clean the bathroom or vacuum carpets that are not affected by the crime or death. Instead, this type of service sticks to erasing the physical and visual effects of the crime, cleaning and decontaminating the floors, walls, furniture and anything else that has been affected. We also run air quality tests on property's and deodorize each affected room, removing and disposing of any aftermath that might be left behind.
Besides crime and death scenes, crime cleanup services may also clean up after sites of vandalism and trauma. They are often called on to clean police cruisers, jail cells, and illegal drug labs that have been shut down. They may also clean up after automobile accidents and industrial mishaps. Some of these services even help landlords by cleaning up after tenants who have left rental properties in ill repair. A crime cleanup service can even be instrumental in clearing animal waste from buildings and getting rid of unpleasant pet odors.
Who are we?
In 1988 Mark Fagala started his career in the crisis management business as team member with Gaston Lifesaving Crew and Union Road Fire Department. When disasters happened or the weather turned bad Fagala and his squad went to search and rescue victims in the worst of circumstances.
Over the years as he grew and learned some difficult lessons Mark Fagala received public, media and personal recognition and awards from agencies from all over the Carolinas.
From those days to now, Fagala is still in the business of helping people and organizations save time, money and grief by using his 2+ decades of experience.
After helping several thousands of victims of fire, floods, hurricanes, car wrecks, death and just stupid human errors, Fagala provides insight and wisdom which is truly valuable and unique. He still focuses his skills to provide ordinary people with simple tools to avoid all sorts of stress.
This story about Mark Fagala below is from a NBC news special done by WCNC out of Charlotte.
It's not a job for those with a weak stomach. Just as crime scene detectives wrap up evidence collection, a crime scene cleaner’s job begins. WCNC spent time with a local crime scene cleaner who told us what it’s like to clean up some of the messiest and most gruesome headlines.
When the call comes into 9-1-1, police, fire and medics race to the scene whether it's murder, stabbing, a construction accident, or any other tragedy or trauma. And not far behind them is Gastonia ma