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Determining the Extent of CA Wildfire Damage

One source says that properties are often so decimated that it's difficult to know if a smoking ash heap was a home, a trailer or a water tank.

By Natalie Dolce | nataliedolce | | Updated on August 26, 2016

cawildfires Operating from a mobile command center just south of a 58-square-mile blaze, Fire Marshal Mike Horton recently led a team of 15 investigators, technicians, hazardous materials experts and others responsible for determining the extent and nature of the damages, ABC News reported. According to Horton, properties are often so decimated that it’s difficult to know if a smoking ash heap was a home, a trailer or a water tank. As originally reported in GlobeSt.com sister publication, ALM’s PropertyCasualty360.com, technicians consult mobile computer applications that can download geographic data and county assessors’ information to learn what might have been there before flames swept through. Numerous photos are taken and each scene gets a description of what the team saw. To read more on the subject, click here.

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