Blood and biohazard cleanup in Pueblo, Colorado

Pueblo is in Pueblo County, Colorado. Neighborhoods and districts include Bessemer, Belmont, the East Side, Mesa Junction, and the South Side. Nearby towns people ask about include Pueblo West, Colorado City, Boone, Avondale, and Beulah Valley.

A request can cover a house, apartment, business, or vehicle in Pueblo and those nearby communities. Matching does not mean a truck is stationed in Pueblo.

In Pueblo County, death investigations go through the county coroner. That office, often with local law enforcement, controls the scene until the property is released to the family or the owner. We are not the coroner and do not work the scene. Request Help is for after the release, when someone needs a cleanup company.

Until that release, do not enter to clean, do not throw belongings away, and do not post images of the scene. If someone is in danger, call 911. If you or someone with you is in crisis, call or text 988.

Pueblo is dry, with hot summers and cold winters. Dry air can make a scene look less wet than it is, while summer heat in a closed house still speeds odor. A hard freeze slows what you can see. None of that makes household cleanup a good idea.

Pueblo housing includes Bessemer brick houses, East Side homes, and mesa-edge houses. Habitability duties often sit with the owner, but We do not decide that. The person who controls the property — owner, manager, or a family member who has been given authority — is the one who should use Request Help. After a scene is released, the person who controls the property usually requests the referral. That is often the owner or the manager for a rental, and a family member when the household still controls the home. A tenant should not be expected to wipe blood or decomposition residue. Neither one is a reason for the family to do the cleanup.

Colorado treats methamphetamine-affected properties under the state's illegal drug laboratory law and the State Board of Health cleanup rules, 6 CCR 1014-3. Assessment, decontamination, and clearance sampling are done by people certified for that work. A Pueblo house with a few items of paraphernalia is not automatically that kind of property. We do not certify buildings and do not perform the cleanup. A partner that is not qualified in Colorado should decline.

An independent partner that accepts a Pueblo referral typically contains the area, removes porous materials it is prepared to take, disinfects what can stay, and arranges disposal through its own channels. Odor work comes after the source is gone. That company does the work and sends its own invoice. We are not paid by the customer. There is no local office in Pueblo County.

Start with Request Help. The fastest way to get help is the Request Help form; available 24/7/365. You do not need to write a graphic account of what happened.