Sisters start crime scene clean-up business
Cleaning up a crime scene is a dirty, filthy and potentially hazardous job, but someone has to do it. And in Bozeman there are at least two companies that do.
When Patty Burrows started her cleaning business about 11 years ago, she had no idea she’d be relying on clove oil and Vick’s VapoRub to mask the odors she encounters on her job. She began simply cleaning offices and homes.
But after finally convincing her sister, Bev Paquet, a paramedic from Michigan, to move to Montana, the two combined their interests to start White Glove Bio-Haz – a licensed cleaning service that specializes in mopping up buildings and vehicles after the unthinkable has occurred.
“And we both have strong stomachs, so we just decided to combine our talents,” Burrows said.
The two started the niche business this past fall.
In addition to crime and trauma scene cleanup, the sisters specialize in sanitizing “gross filth” – places where landlords find rental properties left in such nasty disarray that they don’t want to touch anything themselves, for example.
So clean up can cost a property owner from $1,000 to tens of thousands, they said.
Ben and Gail Yanker, owners of Buffalo Restoration Inc., have been cleaning up trauma scenes since about 1990, Ben Yanker said. Their business actually started as Buffalo Painting in the mid-1970s and evolved to include architectural restoration. The trauma-cleaning business “just kind of flowed” into the mix in 1990, after a few employees were trained in hazardous cleanup. Now, four of the Yankers’ 14 employees have the skills and knowledge to tackle such tasks.
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