Palm Desert
Biohazard and crime scene cleanup in Palm Desert
For houses, condominiums and vehicles in Palm Desert. Phone, and you are put in touch with an independent cleanup company that takes jobs in the middle of the valley.
Answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
The Sheriff's Palm Desert Station
Palm Desert contracts with the Riverside County Sheriff for its policing. Deputies work from the Palm Desert Station at 73-705 Gerald Ford Drive, (760) 836-1600. The same station serves Indian Wells and Rancho Mirage.
The station page gives (951) 776-1099 as the non-emergency number, and the Sheriff says its dispatch centers are staffed every hour of the year. Ring it if you need to know whether a home has been released.
Gates, associations and shared walls
If you live behind a gate, the gatehouse decides who drives in. Phone security or the association office, say that a contractor is coming and roughly when, and pass the gate instructions to the company. Ask the association about its rules on working hours and on where a van may stand.
In a condominium, the governing documents set out what is yours and what is the association's. If anything reached a shared wall, a corridor or the unit next door, tell the association early. Who pays for the common parts is between you, the association and the insurers. The cleanup company can describe what it found, but it cannot settle that.
No company needs your neighbors to know why it is there. If discretion matters to you, ask how its vehicles are marked.
After a death, or after a crime
Deaths that need a coroner are handled by the Riverside County Sheriff-Coroner, whose desert office is in Indio. After a violent crime, the state's victim compensation program may repay cleanup, and the District Attorney's office in Indio takes the forms. Who pays has the addresses and the conditions.
Ready when the home has been handed back
There is no rush to phone tonight. Once police or the coroner have released the property, a single call reaches a cleanup company that works in Indio and the neighboring desert cities.
One number, any hour
Describe the room or the vehicle in your own words. An independent cleanup company takes it from there, and hiring it stays your choice.
Call (760) 289-3572Answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
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