Orcutt, Santa Barbara County
Biohazard and crime scene cleanup in Orcutt
Orcutt has no police department of its own, and that shapes who you will be dealing with after a death or a crime here. The cleanup itself is arranged the same way as in Santa Maria: one call, an independent company, your decision.
Phone answered all day and all night, seven days a week
Deputies, not city police
Orcutt is unincorporated, so the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office is its law enforcement. Calls are answered from the Santa Maria Station at 812-A West Foster Road. The front office is open on weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and shuts for lunch between noon and one. Its number is (805) 934-6150.
Outside those hours, the Sheriff's non-emergency dispatch number is (805) 683-2724. For an emergency, 911.
These are the numbers to use when you want to know whether a home has been released, or need the report number for an insurer.
The same deputies act for the coroner
In this county the Sheriff is also the Coroner, and the station says its deputies carry out coroner duties in the unincorporated areas they patrol. So the deputy who comes to the door may also be the person who begins the death investigation, with the Coroner’s Bureau taking it from there.
For questions about a relative in the Bureau's care, or about property an investigator collected, phone the Bureau at (805) 681-4145 on a weekday between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. A funeral home, once you have chosen one, will make most of those calls for you.
When you call about cleanup
Say "Orcutt" and give the street. Many Orcutt addresses share the 93455 ZIP code with the south end of Santa Maria, and the town name helps the company place you.
Then say what kind of job it is. The pages on unattended death, blood and bodily fluids and hoarded homes describe what each involves and what to ask.
If a crime was involved
Victims in Orcutt use the same District Attorney's Victim-Witness office as people in the city: 312-D East Cook Street in Santa Maria, (805) 346-7529. An advocate there can help with the state application that may repay cleanup in a home or a vehicle. Hire a company on the state's registered list, or that repayment is not available.
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.