SERVPRO of Wilson County : How to Keep Items Safe from Fire

2/11/2021 (Permalink)

How to keep items safe from fire

Wilson County (https://www.SERVPROwilsoncounty.com/)

When disaster strikes your home, it can leave a trail of devastation behind. But the real gut-wrenching loss are those valuables that cannot be replaced, whether a family heirloom, photographs or some other memento. While we certainly cannot predict when a fire or flood will hit, there are some steps you can take to protect those items that are most valuable to you.

The Most Important Items to Protect During a Fire

Although we may consider many items in ours homes to be relatively valuable to us, that list gets narrowed down very quickly when a home fire hits. This list includes (but is not limited to):

• Birth certificates
• Property titles (i.e. your home deed)
• Insurance policies
• Safe deposit box keys
• Social security cards/Passports/Forms of ID
• Spare car/house keys
• Wills and living trusts

This list encompasses anything that is either incredibly difficult or impossible to replace and holds tremendous value to your continued financial wellbeing. These items have relatively no value when it comes to insurance policies so getting reimbursed for the loss of any of them is nearly impossible to do.

Ways to Protect your Priceless Items

When disaster-proofing your priceless items, there are no hard and fast rules about what to keep them. The goal is to have everything in at least two places in case one is destroyed or inaccessible. Generally speaking, you have 5 places to choose from when deciding where to keep your papers:

1. Wallet
2. Safe Deposit Box
3. Online/Digital Storage
4. Attorney
5. Friend or Relative living elsewhere

What to do After your Home Fire

Following the above tips will help you rest easier knowing that, in the case of a home fire, you don’t have to scramble amidst the mounting flames to get your priceless items in order; instead you can focus on the safety of yourself and loved ones. As soon as you have documented everything from your home fire, be sure to call the experienced team at SERVPRO Wilson County at (615) 449-5000 as soon as possible. We have decades of experience in restoring homes from fire damage and you deserve the expertise that we bring to the table.