Weld County
Biohazard cleanup in Greeley
Greeley is in Weld County, so a death or a crime here brings in different offices from the ones in Fort Collins. All of them are in Greeley itself, and one of them may help with the cleanup bill.
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In Greeley
The offices you will meet
Greeley Police
911 in an emergency. Non-emergency dispatch is (970) 350-9600, option 4. The department's Victim Services Program, (970) 351-5345, sends advocates to scenes and follows up afterwards with referrals for medical, financial and legal needs.
Weld County Coroner
The coroner's office is at 1121 M Street and answers (970) 400-4990 on weekdays from 8 to 5. Outside those hours a death is reported through the dispatch number above, extension 4, asking for the on-call coroner.
A funeral home of your choosing
The coroner's office says it cannot recommend one. Property that came into its care is inventoried, kept safe and usually handed over to the mortuary you select.
A cleanup company
When the house is released, call (970) 372-1484 to reach a company that works in Greeley.
After a crime
A compensation form that names cleanup
Crimes in Greeley go to the 19th Judicial District's Crime Victim Compensation program, run from the Weld County District Attorney's office. Among the services listed on its application is crime scene sanitization. The form describes it as the professional removal of bodily fluids or matter, tear gas or other items that leave a residence uninhabitable, when homeowner's or renter's insurance does not fully cover it.
The program says losses can be compensated even when no suspect is ever identified, and that its board usually decides within 30 to 45 days once it has every document. Write to it at weldvictimcompensation
Records
Certificates and reports in Weld County
Coroners in Colorado may not hand death certificates to families directly. Your funeral director is the simplest route to certified copies. The first one issued may read "pending" while laboratory results are outstanding.
Autopsy reports are public record. The Weld County office says they are usually ready six to eight weeks after the autopsy, and it sends them electronically on request.