 Do you ever wonder what happens when the police leave? Crime scene cleaners are private companies that handle the cleanup after the police are gone. Spalling Decon is one of the nation's largest cleanup companies handling the aftermath of homicides, suicides, decompositions, hoarding, and much more. These are our stories. We have an interesting bio today. The stray cat got into the car and it's melted completely. The cat body, the carcass has been removed. We're trying to get a bunch of that clumpy, waxy, melty stuff up. Hey, what's up guys? We have an interesting bio today. So we're on our way to Lithia, Florida. We have a lady who left her trunk open while she was bringing in the groceries for a while. There's a lot of stray cats on the property. A stray cat got into the car. She didn't realize the cat was in there, shut the door, and she uses her car about once every couple weeks. So the car is in the back seat. It's melted completely. So the cat body, the carcass has been removed. However, we're here to clean up the bio of that. So it should be an interesting one for doing an animal bio today. So stay tuned. So right now, as always, we're going to use Indicator. We're going to start off indicating every general area of where the visible biohazard is. Because obviously we want to know what our full scope of work is. I need to know if there's potentially blood or bodily fluids from this animal on different seats that I may not see with the naked eye. So that's why I need to indicate to kind of, so we can game plan and get ahead of time and get this done. All right guys. So as you can see, we hit it with Part A. We're treating it right now. We're trying to get a much of that clumpy kind of waxy, melty stuff up that we can. For lack of a better term. So what I want to do next is what I'm going to do is I'm going to pull these carpets and I'm going to start removing my seats here. Because that bio ran underneath that passenger seat, the front passenger seat. As we can see, indicative by indicating and visual inspection as well. But once it hits that metal underneath the carpet, it could have run all the way to the front. So we don't know. So that's why we're going to pull that carpet regardless. We're going to look underneath. We're going to indicate and we're going to see that. So right now, we're trying to get as much of that substance up. So we are not slinging it everywhere else when we start pulling and pulling the carpet out, right? Just to save us time and save potential cross-contamination of just anywhere else in the vehicle. So we're going to hit it with a HEPAVAC. Once we got it all foamed up and thick, we're going to suck it up in a HEPAVAC. And then we're going to start cutting that carpet up. Hey guys. So it's important to note that you may not see us putting it in a bio bag and a bio bin like normal. Well, to answer that question that I know you guys are going to have about that, in the state of Florida, animal waste at all, any dead animal, any decayed animal, it doesn't matter, is not considered bio waste in the state of Florida or biohazardous, right? So we're treating this as a biohazard for our safety and because that's what the client wants, right? But at the end of the day, we do not need to take the same OSHA precautions or dispose of it as we would if it were human. Because in the state of Florida, animal is not considered biohazardous. It's really important when any time you're going to take a seat out of a vehicle, especially front seats or anything like that, that you check to see if the seat has an airbag installed into the seat itself, right? So this one, as you can see, if you come here with me on the side, it says SRS airbag right here. So that means there's an airbag in this seat. So what that does basically is any side collision, anything that happens, that kind of barricades you into the seat there and protects you. So if I go unplugging this seat and unplug the wiring harnesses underneath without disconnecting the car battery, this is going to go off. So I don't want that to happen and ruin the seat, obviously. So it's important to always check that before you're pulling these seats out. You can see where it ran through right here. It is completely red and brown with maggots on it all the way down. All right, so what I'm doing right now is I'm taking my trusty dusty socket set. I'm taking these seat bolts out so I can pull the seat out. We unhooked the battery that way. Like I said before, the airbag doesn't go off when I unplugged the wiring harness from the seat. We'll call it, went underneath the seat, so I got to get the carpet underneath it, as well as black parts of the seat around the back screws. What we're doing in the meantime, kind of, we're working multiple angles here. So I'm pulling the seat out while Shauna is, what she's doing is wiping down all the stuff, kind of just trying to disinfect as much as we can as we go. I'm actually having trouble getting the screw because my finger is slipping from all the liquid, liquefied cat fat that's on here. So what my next step is here, just as I would do if I pulled up the flooring of a house, right? I'm going to treat that subfloor, right? So what I'm going to do here, since it's not an absorbent material like concrete or anything that a subfloor normally would be, I'm going to spray this with shockwave on this metal to disinfect this. So I treated it with Part A three times. I made sure nothing else indicated. I made sure that padding substance that's on the floor is actually a harder rubber material. So I don't actually have to pull it. So I made sure that I don't have to pull that out, or if I did. So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to hit it with shockwave and I'm going to disinfect that whole area. We did the rest of the car already. So what I'm going to do now is just that direct spot where the bio was. As far as underneath the floor format, it's clean. Oh, yeah? Not one bug. Huh? Do I spray it on the screws? Yeah, the one. Clean off these bolts to put back in the car so we can clean off any residue from the animal. Don't want that smell still in your car. Because of the odor has gotten into obviously the AC system in here. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to turn the fogger on and put it in the car and recirculate. And I'm going to fog this thing out for probably five, ten minutes and let it circulate through the air duct system and disinfect and get rid of and neutralize any odor or germs that are in the AC system. Because I just had my face in front of it. Turn this thing to four to turn it on. I could definitely smell it in there. Want me to put this in the front? Yeah. That was my first time cleaning up after an animal that passed away in a vehicle. And it's quite smelly, quite sad actually. But I had fun today. It was great working with Nathan and got the job done really fast. All right guys, so end of the day here. We're wrapping up. Again, we had a cat bio melted in the car. We cut the carpet out on the back passenger side all the way under the seat as we indicated. And as we pulled the carpet up, we found that it had run a little bit underneath the seat. So we pulled that seat out. We unbolted it. We unhooked the battery like I explained. So we didn't pop the airbags. We cleaned off the seat. Fortunately, none of the upholstery on the seats themselves were nasty. It's another good day with Spalding Deacon. Thanks for watching guys. Don't forget to like, share, subscribe and ring that bell to be notified of the next episode. For more information, visit any of our locations.