Virginia Beach pays $500K to clean mass shooting site. Experts say that indicates scope of tragedy.

[TexasTowelie]

VIRGINIA BEACH -- Most people would have a hard time imagining a job more awful than cleaning up Building 2 in the city’s Municipal Center after the region’s worst mass shooting took place there.

Belfor, a worldwide property restoration company with a branch in Chesapeake, did the work, receiving a $500,000 no-bid contract to clean up and decontaminate the crime scene after FBI and police finished collecting evidence.

The company declined to comment on the contract or the task, saying through a spokeswoman that the matter is too sensitive to discuss. The May 31 workplace rampage left 13 people dead, including the gunman, and four wounded.

At half a million dollars, Belfor's contract is more than twice the price charged by a Las Vegas company in 2017 to clean up after a gunman firing from a high-rise hotel killed 58 and wounded hundreds in a 15-acre concert field near the MGM Grand.

Read more: https://pilotonline.com/news/local/virginia-beach-mass-shooting/article_02648ca0-af4a-11e9-a739-c3f7bc58bfe3.html

[murielm99]

1. Yeah. Someone has to clean up.

This needs to be publicized. It needs to be done in a compassionate way, but people need to be forced to think about it.

I remember quite well the shooting at Northern Illinois University. They don't use the lecture hall any more. But someone had to clean up. Who? Who was given that dreadful job? Do they have nightmares? PTSD?

We need to talk about these things.