It’s been 20 years since Hurricane Andrew rocked southern Florida. In accordance with the infamous anniversary, the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety has revealed a multi-media issue of Disaster Safety Review, which details how things have changed since 1992 along the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts.
Two executives of Disaster Restoration Inc., including the owner, have been convicted of federal fraud charges, the Justice Department announced Wednesday evening, according to a story in the Denver Business Journal.
In the disaster restoration business, we usually have a steady stream of work due to bad weather, accidents or breakdowns. We use each job to deepen our experience and enhance our reputation so that when agents or property owners need emergency repairs and restoration work, we are the go-to company.
Catastrophe Cleaning, or “Cat Cleaning,” has announced plans to hire more staff and move to a larger Largo, FL facility due to the high demand for its services, notably electronics restoration and art and document drying. The business plans to move from a 5,000 square foot building to one of 12,000 square feet soon.
On January 17, 2012, a property manager of a residential building in Kihei, HI called PuroClean Emergency Restoration Services in Maui regarding a cleanup job of a 750 square-foot, two-bedroom condo.
On April 14, a
tornado came down on Creston, IA so quickly that it even caught emergency
management officials off-guard - it materialized so fast that none of the
city’s tornado sirens were activated.
In early September 2011, Tropical Storm Lee stalled over central Pennsylvania only a week after Hurricane Irene swept the East Coast. The residual flooding cost residents and businesses thousands to millions of dollars in property damages. This included the hard hit Danville Area School District in Danville, PA.
Seven
tornadoes touched down across the Tri-State area of Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio
on March 2, 2012, the largest of which were in Holton, IN, Crittenden and
Piner, KY, and Moscow, OH. All of the tornadoes measured at EF3 on the Enhanced
Fujita Scale.