Monday mornings are always a bit hectic in the restoration industry, but one Monday last May proved to be an unforgettable day for everybody at our company. Last year marked our 7th anniversary in our main office building in Brighton, MI. We are the last building on a dead end industrial drive that had never, to this point in time, experienced any type of crime or vandalism. It was on this day that we realized how vulnerable we truly were.
Our company was busy after a brief but heavy rain just before the weekend, and this spike in new water damage projects had kept our crews busy throughout the sunny Saturday and Sunday leading up to this Monday. The morning started as any other, with our administrative staff arriving at 7 a.m. to prepare the daily work orders for the production crews that begin their shift at 8 a.m. As our fleet of vehicles sits behind the content warehouse to the rear of our building, none of us that arrived realized that anything had happened the night prior.