Remediating Biohazards in a Community Garden North of San Francisco: Restoring an Important Neighborhood Spot to a Safe and Usable Condition

No precise count exists on the number of community gardens in operation in the swath of territory around the greater Bay Area communities. Indeed, there is no reliable estimate of the number of active communities throughout California. It is estimated that there are over 29,000 community gardens in the 100 largest cities in the United…

How to Mourn With Others Who Mourn

If you are mourning the death of a loved one, odds are that others are also mourning. These may include other family members if you’ve lost a relative and other friends or colleagues of the deceased if there is no blood relationship. In the vast majority of instances when a family member, friend, or colleague…

Senior in His Golden Years Needs Professional Assistance to Clean Trailer: Garbage, Biohazards, and Salvageable Personal Property Create Challenging Cleanup Project

William resides in a single-wide trailer in Lake Elsinore, California. Recently, he has exhibited what some people have described as hoarding behavior. Hoarding behavior involves the excessive acquisition of and inability or unwillingness to discard large quantities of objects that cover the living areas of the home and cause significant distress or impairment. Hoarding disorder…

Homeless Housing Property Manager Faces Overwhelming Challenges

Los Angeles is the location of a number of homeless programs designed to assist unhoused vets in transitioning into suitable, safe housing. An example of these services is apartment units housing, providing living spaces for previously unhoused vets. In many ways, this particular center operates like any other apartment complex. With that said, a vet…

Preventing Sewage Backups

While most home and business owners aren’t thinking about the condition of their piping system on a daily basis, the truth is that they probably should be. Of the many piping issues that can, and often do, plague modern American homes, sewer backups aren’t anything to take lightly. In fact, sewage water can be so…

Basic Clean Up Procedures for Raw Sewage

A raw sewage backup can be a true nightmare for any home, business or establishment. Not only does it smell and look awful, but allowing raw sewage to linger has the potential to destroy human health. For this reason, it is imperative that property owners enlist the help of professional cleaning companies and plumbing services…

Sanitary Sewer Overflows: What They Are and Why They Happen

Sanitary sewer overflows, otherwise known as SSOs, are a major cause for concern in many residences, buildings and communities. Sanitary sewer overflows can be defined as raw sewage that seeps from municipal, industrial or residential sanitary systems. Sanitary systems are responsible for transporting sewage collected by domestic, commercial and industrial buildings to facilities for treatment.…

How To Detect Underground Sewage Seepage

If you have a situation involving underground sewage seepage, you need to take prompt action to correct the plumbing related issue. You also need to obtain immediate assistance from a reputable biohazard cleanup company. One of the most dangerous things that can happen at your home or business is underground sewage seepage. Underground sewage seepage…

Fire Restoration Tools and Their Uses

In the world of fire restoration, there are many types of equipment that will need to be utilized for remediators to achieve their overarching goal of restoring the fire affected structure back to its original state. This equipment, though highly effective, requires the skill and expertise of a well-trained technician and comes with a few…

Fire Restoration Technicians and Safety

Nothing can prepare you for the devastation that surrounds being personally affected by a fire. It is for this reason that fire restoration technicians take their jobs seriously, and seek to aid in rehabilitating any structural damage that they can.  To do this, a fire restoration technician must follow strict laws and guidelines and must…

Mass Casualty Incidents in the Workplace

Mass shootings in the United States were ubiquitous occurrences in 2019. There were more mass shootings across the country in 2019 than there were days in the year. A total of 417 mass shootings occurred in the United States during the course of 2019. A considerable percentage of these shootings took place in the workplace,…

Crime Scene Cleaners in a Retail Setting

We live in something of a rough and tumble society. A stark example of our collective reality is that none of us are immune from crime. This includes those of us that own small businesses in Southern California. If you’re a business owner that has become the victim of a crime at your establishment, you…

Who Are First Responders?

We all often hear and read the term “first responder.” Odds are if you are like most people you have a general idea of who constitutes at least some first responders in California and across the United States. As the moniker indicates, a first responder is an individual with specialized training that is among the…

Overview of How Hoarding Impacts Your Investment Property: Make the Best of a Challenging Situation

With alarming regularity, landlords in Southern California and throughout the state, indeed across the United States, face situations involving hoarders living in their rental property. You may find yourself in this position, encountering a tenant who hoards. The stark reality is that hoarding can impact your investment or rental property in a number of ways…