Water Damage from Firefighting in Flom, MN
Suppression puts a great deal of water into a building in a short time, and it goes wherever gravity takes it. Buildings routinely have more water damage than fire damage, spread across floors the fire never reached.
That water is not clean. It has run through soot, burned material and whatever was in the structure, which puts it into the contaminated categories under the IICRC standard rather than the clean water category a burst supply line produces. It is handled accordingly.
The scheduling problem is real. Drying and soot cleanup have to run together, because water sitting in a soot loaded building grows mold within a couple of days and soot left on wet surfaces bonds into them. Emberline Restoration runs both across Flom, MN rather than sequencing one behind the other.
Standing water comes out first, then moisture readings map how far it actually travelled through framing, subfloor and wall cavities. Wet insulation comes out rather than dries. Readings are logged and dated for the claim.
Call Emberline Restoration at (888) 773-0161.
