Blood and biohazard cleanup in Madison, Wisconsin

Madison is in Dane County, Wisconsin. Neighborhoods and districts include the Isthmus, Williamson Street, the Near West Side, and the North and South Sides. Other communities in the county are part of the same referral area.

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

Dane County uses a medical examiner. Families in Madison are usually told by that office, or by local law enforcement, when a home or business can be entered. We are not that office and are not law enforcement. After the release, the owner, a family member, or the property manager can use Request Help.

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.

Lake-effect cold and snow can slow what a family sees in an unattended death, then a humid summer in a closed Madison house speeds odor and the way fluids move into carpet and subfloor. Neither season makes the room safe to clean with household products.

Madison housing includes older isthmus houses, student rentals, and lakeside homes. We do not give legal advice about who is responsible. 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.

Wisconsin health guidance treats a former meth lab as separate from ordinary biohazard cleanup. Madison blood or death referrals are not lab clearances. We do not certify properties.

An independent partner that accepts a Madison 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 Dane 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.