Crime & Trauma Scene Cleanup

Hello, I just wanted to say thank you to the Bio-Trauma 911 team. I am the sole proprietor of my new business in Maine and I could not have done it with out the Bio-Trauma 911 staff. They not only provided great training and knowledge in the business, the people there are very hospitable and went out of the way to make my stay pleasurable and provided indepth information and knowledge into the business. I highly encourage anyone looking to get into the business to visit the Bio-Trauma 911 web site.

Thanks,

Gary Paradis

Trauma Scene Cleaners, LLC

248 Waterville Road

Norridgewock, Maine 04976

(207)431-1881/634-2086

Just want to take a minute to thank two readers for recent comments.

http://www.biotrauma911.com/blog/index.php/archive/authors-wanted/#comments

http://www.biotrauma911.com/blog/index.php/archive/what-price-should-be-paid/#comments

Please take time to read both comment sections and post a reply.  Thanks to all for your continued support of this blog. 

I’ve been a police officer for the past seven years.  Too many times, I’ve had the unfortunate experience of being dispatched to the scene of a violent crime or serious accident.  Within minutes, several police officers, firefighters and EMT’s arrive to assist, all rushing about, dilegently performing their duties with the syncronization of a rolex watch.  Somewhere though, in the back of an ambulance or hiding in the background waiting for help, is the victim.  The victim, not necessarily injured, is the homeowner or lessee, responsible for the condition of her home or apartment.  She’s approached several times by first responders, prodding her for information, asking questions either she can’t think about or doesn’t have the answers to.  All the while, she’s looking at the remains of a loved one, remains still present after the body is removed.  Blood, bone matter and other bodily fluids strewn about the floors and walls.  In a state of shock, she utters repeatedly, “what am I to do”, “WHAT AM I TO DO”!  No answer.  With further clarity she asks several uniformed individuals nearby, “who will help me clean this up”?  Still, no answer.  Tears stream down her face as she slowly begins to realize that she will be left alone.  The frenzy will end; the officers, firefighters and EMT’s will leave and she will be left to clean the aftermath of a horrible tragedy.

This shouldn’t be the end of the story.  Any public servant dispatched to the scene of a crime or trauma scene should feel obligated to offer any and all assistance necessary to the victims.  This includes taking additional steps to ensure the victim knows that crime and trauma scene cleanup companies are available to help.  Too many victims are all too often left alone without receiving this information.  It’s not necessary for first responders to “sell” a particular company, but to point the victim in the right direction should be a legitimate and justified level of action.        

Please, I encourage any first responder reading this blog to think about the victims and their cries for help.  These cries may not be understood and they may be faint, but they are there.   Take a few minutes to talk with the victim after everyone else has left.  Find out what you can do to help and what information the victim may need that will help them to begin the healing process.   

I am in need of authors for this blog.  I have several people in mind who will be appointed in the next few days.  If you are interested in becoming an author, please take a few minutes and register.  I review all requests and submissions on a daily basis.  I will typically upgrade your status to contributor immediately, then to author within a week or two. 

Thank you for your interest in this blog.

Everyone thinks that you have to have a sick personality to do this work!  That is SO NOT TRUE!  There are so many jobs in this wide world that need doing, that there better be people that not only can do them, but actually are GOOD at doing them!

Recently, I was undergoing a minor surgical procedure. (BTW, in case you haven’t had any minor surgical procedures in awhile, they make you walk into the operating room and hop up onto the table!  Yeah!  Walk to your own surgery!)  Anyway, while all the personnel in the operating room were reading everything they were talking to me, asking me questions… in an effort to make me relax?  NO Way!  Just put me out already!  Anyway… they were asking me what I did for a living, and I told them about Bio-Trauma and that we clean crime and trauma scenes.  Do you know what they said?  “OOOOOOO, yuck!”  Yeah, the operating team thought that was yuck!  OMG can you believe it?  The people that work with the insides of human beings daily, thought that crime and trauma scene clean up was oooooo yuck!  LOL  I didn’t get to laugh as they finally put me to sleep.  LAUGHING NOW!