Via Boston Herald BROOKS SUTHERLAND The tragic business of cleaning up deadly fentanyl overdose sites is booming — with calls flooding in for hazmat responses to hotels, schools, ball fields, public restrooms and even rental cars, where addicts have been shooting up drugs. “It’s increased tremendously in the last 18 months and even more specifically in the last 12 months,” said Michael […]
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New Law Proposed After 7 News Story Featuring Trauma Reveals Fentanyl Danger
(WHDH) — Someone died in this van of a fentanyl overdose. The front seat is still covered with the deadly drug. Hank Phillippi Ryan: “What could happen if that door was just opened?” Mike Wiseman, CEO, Trauma Services: “Anyone within a 6-foot area, depending on the wind current, could overdose on fentanyl exposure.” Hank: […]
Trauma Featured in Article By INC. Magazine
Will Yakowicz INC.com Drug Labs, Hoarding, and Murder: The Crime Scene Cleanup Industry Is Booming The opioid epidemic is raging across America and powerful narcotics like fentanyl are causing tens of thousands of fatal overdoses each year. It’s also spawned a niche industry–that’s now making a killing. — In November 19, 2017, first responders raced […]
Trauma Hosts Fentanyl Training in Haverhill for First Responders
Source: Jill Harmacinski // The Eagle Tribune HAVERHILL — Last summer when three men overdosed — two of them fatally — in Lawrence, police, paramedics and firefighters immediately responded. But hours later, after testing done by a state police lab revealed fentanyl was involved, a professional service was called in to sanitize the second-floor apartment at […]
24 Services Opens New Office in Wilbraham
24 Services is pleased to announce the opening of our fifth field office in Wilbraham, Massachusetts. The new office, located at 95 Post Office Park, is fully staffed and equipped, providing Western Massachusetts with all of 24’s services, such as flood mitigation, fire damage restoration, board-ups, temporary fencing, tree removal, emergency demolition, reconstruction, and biohazard […]
Trauma trains JPD on handling dangerous biohazards
Johnston Sun Rise – Disaster restoration specialists from Trauma Services (part of 24) recently gave detectives from Johnston and nearly 50 other communities and organizations a specialized training seminar detailing the best way to handle hazardous materials, especially those involving biohazards and infectious diseases. “Detectives can be in danger long after a crime is committed […]