It’s mid-April 2014 and David O’Brien, Crime Scene Clean Team/Rapid Responders, is working on a 600 square foot apartment unit. It’s a one-bedroom unit, consisting of a kitchen, bathroom and living area.
But he’s not restoring it to a pre-loss condition from a water or fire damage situation or remediating the property from a mold infestation. No, he’s working to get rid of the unit’s bed bug infestation, a pest problem that’s continuing to become more common across the nation, let alone in Las Vegas where O’Brien is based. In fact, according to a recent report in The Wall Street Journal, bed bugs are well on their way to becoming just as common – if not more common – than cockroaches.