Hopatcong House Fire?? Yikes!! Call SERVPRO for Help!

7/23/2021 (Permalink)

You can depend on our technicians to respond quickly to fire damage in your Hopatcong property.

Fire Damage Cleanup in Your Hopatcong Home

Fire safety in your Hopatcong home begins with fire prevention, considering once a fire starts, there is very little time to respond. Within just a moment or two, the blaze can become life-threatening. It is therefore essential that you and your family know what to do if a fire breaks out. Working smoke alarms on each level and enclosed rooms of your home are very important and are the first step to fire safety. 

If your family has been unfortunate enough to experience a fire and fire damage in your Hopatcong home, it is sure to be something you don't ever forget. To help you forget in some ways, SERVPRO is always here to help. We're Faster To Any Size Disaster. As a professional remediation company, we have the training and tools to restore your home to the way it was, whenever possible.

It would help if you also created an escape plan that outlines various escape routes from each room of your home in an emergency. Once you have a strategy in place, practice it as a family to ensure that everyone in your household knows how to get out of the house if a fire were to occur. Be sure to have fire extinguishers in easy to reach places, especially the garage and kitchen.

House Fire Clean Up

With some smoke conditions, SERVPRO staff may use mechanical action to remove the residues without applying a cleaning product. Light concentrations of smoke particles that are not greasy, as produced from dry smoke, can be cleanable from nonporous surfaces. These mechanical actions make only mild agitation and are safe to use on almost all surfaces. 

We can use a feather duster to remove residues on furniture with hard surfaces. Paintbrushes of various sizes are suitable for brushing residues from ornamental or decorative areas of hard surface furniture. A vacuum can take heavy deposits of loose smoke particles and smoke webs off ceiling and wall surfaces. We use a cleaning brush attachment to agitate the residues from the surface. Compressed air blows loose residues from electronic equipment with regulated compressed air. We are careful to control the amount of air pressure that we apply. For significant fire damage, we recommend having an electronics company deal with the cleaning of the devices.

Other things you can do for the safety of your home are regularly servicing your heating system to make sure it is working right and keeping your clothes dryer free of lint. Be careful as well not to overload any circuits and supervise your cooking closely. 

SERVPRO of Dover / Stillwater understands that sometimes fires can still happen, so when your home in Dover, Hopatcong, or Jefferson has suffered from a fire incident, we are here to help. Call us at (973) 810-2825 as soon as the flames are extinguished so we can get to you and help you restore your home as quickly as possible, "Like it never even happened."