Fire Damage Cleanup

Emergency Fire Damage Tips:

• Do not attempt to wash any walls or pointed surface. This may set the stains.

• Watch for safety issues and be careful

• If electricity is off empty freeze and refrigerator and prop doors open. This stops food odors in your appliances.

• Until any movement in the effected area. This prevents smearing of soot particles

• Do not attempt to clean any electrical appliances that may have been close to water.

• Do not use any caned or packaged food or beverages that may have stored close to fire, heat or water. They may have been contaminated.

• Do not turn on ceiling fan.

It was just a small fire: What did it leave behind?

Servpro of Collier County / Fort Myers South first step at a fire scene is to address your concerns. The second step is to pretest to see what type of fire has taken place. Knowing the types of smoke and their behavior patterns is vital to proper restoration.
Pretesting determines the cleaning method as well as what can be restored versus replaced.
Pretesting also allows us to focus on saving those precious items for you! Isn’t that what really matters?


Did you know there are different types of smoke?

Wet smoke- Plastics & Rubber

Low heat, smoldering, pungent odor, sticky, smeary.

Dry Smoke- Paper & Wood

Fast burning, high temperatures, heat rises, therefore the smoke rises.

Protein-Produced by evaporation of material rather than from fire

Virtually invisible, discolors paints, and vanishes, extreme pungent odor

Fuel Oil Soot-Furnace Puff Backs

Other Types-Tear gas, fingerprint powder and fire extinguisher residue


Emergency Fire Damage Procedures:

1. Servpro of Collier County / Fort Myers South will arrive within 4 hours

2. Servpro of Collier County / Fort Myers South will address your concerns:

• Identify the source of loss and safety issues
• What cause the loss?
• What type of residue exists?
• Are there other safety issues?

3. Pretest for restoration. Pretesting determines:

• What is unrestorable?
• What is restorable and what methods of restoration will be most effective?
• What area and items are unaffected?
• What items need special adjuster attention?

4. Servpro of Collier County / Fort Myers South will clean:

• Soiled items
• Walls, ceilings and flooring
• Upholstery and other contents
• Hard furniture such as wood and metal

5. Deodorization