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Disaster recovery services are a great help. The ability to restore maps, photos and documents that have suffered water or fire damage can avert a number of headaches as well as disappoint.

Imagine coming home after work and opening your door to discover a huge stream of water pouring out of the ceiling. It would seem the upstairs neighbor’s pipes broke and the flood has spread to your lower level condo. If this wasn’t bad enough the water has severely damaged a number of your personal belongings. Trying to salvage your personal belongings on your own is an arduous task. Experts can make it simpler.

When a fire ravages a home or office the results can be devastating. Damages done to a building and its contents range in severity based on a number of foreseeable and unforeseeable factors. Depending on the severity of the damage, there may be much that can be effectively restored if experts are called in to assess the situation promptly.

October 8, 2008 started out like any other typical morning for Greg Sherwood of Portland, OR. He was preparing breakfast when he looked up and saw his neighbor, Kathy Hendrickson’s, home rushing towards him down the hillside. Greg was not the only one to notice this unfortunate event–evident by the rush of 9-1-1 phone calls that came into the local emergency dispatch office.

Several residents of Dundalk in Baltimore County were rescued recently when flood waters trapped them inside their homes. The cause of the flood was not due to bad weather. Rather, it was caused by a break in a 6-foot-wide water main. USA Today reports about 100 homes and several businesses were damaged by the flood waters that were sometimes “chest-deep”. Many roads were also damaged by the high waters. Although many people had to be rescued, no one was injured.