Cambridge sanitation business specializes in crime scene cleanup

By RICHARD McNEY
Chesapeake Business Ledger Editor

CAMBRIDGE Vance Morris worked for 25 years in the restaurant and hotel industry, but after getting laid off in May 2007, the second time in five years, he decided to stop working for others and start his own business. Having always worked in the design, sanitation and process improvement of all the food service companies he had ever worked for, he knew there was a need for a business that specialized in commercial restaurant and kitchen sanitation.

"I knew that there were very few specialized cleaning companies," he said. "I used my relationships in the food and restaurant industry to get into the business."

Cleanup completed at Civic Association

April 5, 2009

Cleanup has been completed at the American Civic Association building in Binghamton, where a gunman killed 13 people and injured four before taking his own life Friday.

The American Bio-Recovery Association, a non-profit international association of crime and trauma scene professionals, said Sunday that the bio-recovery cleaning was complete. The Ipswich, Mass.-based group provided the service at no cost.

Two member companies, Disaster Clean Up of Endwell and the Bio-Recovery Corporation of New York City, donated labor and supplies to remediate the scene with a crew of six technicians.