Tiny Candles Can Create Substantial Fire Damage in Dallas Homes

11/24/2017 (Permalink)

Electrical lights and burning candles can quickly catch surrounding items ablaze in your home. Call SERVPRO if you experience fire damage this season.

If Fire Damage Strikes Your Home, Rely on SERVPRO to Properly and Thoroughly Remediate the Damage

Throughout Dallas at this time, every year, many different warnings flood radio and TV regarding the dangers of fire in homes. Safeguarding your family and home while still enjoying the lights and festive decorations do not always mix well. Fires do happen, and they happen when we least expect them.

Dallas homes lit up with electric lights and candles, can end up with fire damage. When electric lights burn too hot or have a short, a crimped or exposed wire, or candles catch surrounding items ablaze, the entire home can become engulfed in flames. Fire spreads quickly, which is why fire departments across the country advise people to get out before calling the fire department. Once outside and safe, calling the fire department and waiting for them to arrive can seem like a very long time.

Once firefighters extinguish a fire, most homes become inhabitable. The time involved in repairing fire damage depends on the extensiveness of the damage. Smaller fires might not render a home unlivable, but the damage still requires professional mitigation. Because fire damage, just like other kinds of damage, can affect a home in a wide range, SERVPRO professionals train to mitigate all types and sizes of damage.

Some fire damage might seem minor because it involves only decorations or other non-structural items. The smell from these items' combustion can produce long-term odors. As they burn, the fire causes soot and other particles to permeate the air. Once these substances settle onto and into materials within your home, they begin integrating. As they do this, people pick up these particles when they breathe.

Detected as bad odors, these particles continue to do this for months, or even years, until we eliminate them. Our Odor Control Technician (OCT) is skilled in this area of fire damage mitigation. Regardless of the size of a fire, odor becomes a constant reminder of the event. Making sure that the particles making the odor can no longer do so is part of our job. Without odor control management, fire damage remains.

The technicians at SERVPRO of Southeast Dallas County want to help those in our area have the best holiday season, and beyond, possible. When fire damage might keep you from enjoying your life, home, and family time, call us at (972) 227-0800, and we can help you solve the disaster that continues to rob your family of their regular routines.

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