Picture this. The area of California that was scorched from this fall’s massive wildfires is three times the size of Washington D.C. In just one 12 hour period, the fires devastated 20,000 acres of land … and at one point was advancing at the rate of a football field every three seconds.
172,117 homes with a combined reconstruction cost value (RCV) of more than $65 billion are at some level of risk from the wildfires in the Napa and Santa Rosa metropolitan areas.
It was July of 2014 – a wildfire had erupted in Amador County, Calif. For days, the fire grew and spread with more than 2,000 firefighters working to get ahead of the flames and contain the blaze.
This edition of Restoration Roundup covers evacuations in Iowa due to the rising Cedar River, evacuations due to a California wildfire, mold problems at a VA facility, new overtime laws, Legionnaire's Disease, and other topics relevant to the restoration industry.