Guadalupe, Santa Barbara County
Biohazard and crime scene cleanup in Guadalupe
A cleanup company that works in Santa Maria can usually come out to Guadalupe. Call the number on this page, say you are in Guadalupe, California, and you will be put through to one. What follows is who else is involved, and in what order.
Phone answered all day and all night, seven days a week
After a death in Guadalupe
Guadalupe is one of Santa Barbara County's cities, and the county's Sheriff-Coroner is responsible for death investigations in all of them, whichever officers arrive first. A coroner's investigator decides whether the person is taken to the county facility or released directly to a funeral home.
The family's part is to pick a funeral home and tell it what has happened. The funeral home deals with the coroner about the release and files for the death certificates.
Ask the officers at the scene two things before they leave: when you may use the room again, and what the report number is.
Help that comes to people in Guadalupe
- After a crime. The District Attorney's Victim-Witness Assistance Program has an office in Santa Maria, at 312-D East Cook Street. It can also be reached at 855-840-3233. Advocates help with the state compensation application, and the office states that legal residency is not required.
- In a crisis. The county's Behavioral Wellness access line is answered around the clock at (888) 868-1649. The national 988 Lifeline takes calls and texts at any hour.
- About someone in the coroner's care. The Coroner's Bureau office is reachable on weekdays, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., at (805) 681-4145.
Homes, sheds and work vehicles
Tell the company what kind of place it is. A bedroom in a house, a unit in a shared building, a workshop and the cab of a pickup are four different jobs, and the crew packs differently for each.
If it happened where people are employed, keep the staff out and let the outside company handle it. California's workplace rules expect an employer to have a written plan and training in place before any employee cleans up blood.
Paying, briefly
The person responsible for the property hires the company. Insurance may respond, and after a crime in a home or vehicle the state compensation board may repay the cost if a registered company did the work. Who pays for biohazard cleanup? sets out each route.
Whenever suits you
Hand the room to people whose trade this is
Two sentences about the situation are plenty. You then hear how the firm would tackle it and what it would bill. Yes or no is yours alone to say, today or next week.
The number for Santa Maria and the valley
Whoever picks up belongs to a cleanup firm that takes jobs from Guadalupe up to Grover Beach. It is a separate business from this website. Name your town, say what sort of place it is, and ask anything.
Call (805) 362-1926Phone answered all day and all night, seven days a week
The call may be recorded. How this works is set out in the referral disclosure.