Fire & Smoke Damage

Mitigation focuses on reducing damages and losses, both to your property and life, after an incident like a fire. Effective and immediate mitigation must take place after to keep financial and physical consequences at a minimum. Neglecting to take appropriate action can place your property at risk. In fact, most insurance policies insist that this takes place to minimise the impact to them financially.

After a fire, there are several sources of potential risk. These include the inhalation and cross contamination of smoke particles and soot. Soot is rich in contaminants and poses serious health risks to anyone in the property. Smoke from the fire often contaminates much more than can be seen.

When firefighters battle a fire, they often make holes in roofs or walls to provide ventilation, however, these holes can become dangerous when approached without caution. Smoke-filled rooms and charred surfaces are places of carcinogens. It’s important for professionals to assess and test the structure looking where the property is vulnerable to further damage. They look for secondary damage affected building materials, high-risk areas for mould growth, and other sources of damage.

There are many variables that affect the proper course of mitigation action after a fire. The number of possible clean-up and mitigation scenarios is different for every property. The purpose of mitigation is to prevent further damage and reduce financial loss. These influence the order of responses and mitigation techniques.

The combination of fire, smoke, soot, and water makes a clean-up effort challenging and complex. We are trained to recognize how to clean up and when to replace items.

If Smoke particles from the fire in materials such as carpets and other surfaces are not decontaminated properly, they will leave a residual odour. For this reason, it is important that fire damage mitigation and remediation begins as soon as possible after the fire has been extinguished.