Fire Damage Restoration Sterling Heights MI

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Have you suffered from a house fire and need urgent and professional Fire Damage Restoration in Sterling Heights MI and surrounding areas? If so, call the Sterling Heights MI Fire Damage Restoration company you can trust – D.B.C. Company, Inc. at (877) 598-9600 now!

After a fire you will likely have several types of damage. Some collections or parts of your building will be water damaged. We don’t discuss water damage here, although there are a variety of excellent sources for additional assistance. Some items will be heavily damaged by the fire — exhibiting ashing, charring, melting, or other distortion from the heat. Much of this material is likely not salvageable. The remainder may be lightly scorched, covered in soot, and have a strong odor of the fire. It is these materials that we will focus on this discussion.

The fire department will have equipment to help pump water out of the building and vent much of the smoke outside. You should ask them for their assistance and advice — they have a lot of experience dealing with different types of buildings and different conditions of fire damage.

No matter how bad the fire or smoke damage, remember that life safety must always be the first concern. Fires can release a number of hazardous materials — PCBs from transformers, toxic chemicals from labs, asbestos from insulation of pipes. Even after a fire electrical lines can still be energized — and deadly. The building should be carefully examined by your engineer to ensure that it is safe to enter.

If recovering yourself, it will help to prioritize collection damage. After the 1995 Contra Costa County (California) Courthouse fire, documents were classed as level 1 or 2, depending on the heaviness of the soot. Such records needed cleaning, but little else. Level 3 records were scorched, but not burned. These required cleaning, but brittleness became a major issue in handling and cleaning. Often such materials need support during handling (you can use heavy paper or cardboard, which should be in your recovery supplies). Level 4 documents were burned, but had little or no information loss. After cleaning they could be trimmed to remove the burnt areas. Or they could be immediately copied. Level 5 documents had lost all or nearly all of their information content.

Keep in mind that even seemingly unaffected items may have suffered damage in a fire. For example, the high temperatures of fires can melt adhesives or plastics and distort textblocks. Films and tapes inside containers can be much more damaged than it appears from a cursory glance of the container itself.

You may also discover that much of your institution’s floor is covered in a mass of charred timbers, broken materials and glass, and a soup of soot and water. Consequently, you must begin by sorting through this slush so that additional damage isn’t done by walking on collections. Since these materials will likely already be waterlogged, you will probably do well to rinse them off — they will be easier to treat if they are recognizable as collection objects. You will also want a large number of trays (disposable aluminum baking pans work well) in which you can begin the process of sorting out different materials.

source: chicora.org

If you have experienced a house fire in Sterling Heights MI and surrounding areas, you must act immediately. Please call the Fire Damage Restoration experts in Sterling Heights MI – D.B.C. Company, Inc. today at (877) 598-9600.

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