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Fire damage in Commerce, CA rarely looks like a house fire. More often it’s a warehouse bay off Bandini Boulevard with smoke pushing through shared wall cavities, or a 1960s packing plant where an electrical short smoldered through the night and left soot on three hundred pallets of inventory. If you’re standing in that mess right now, call (855) 915-0646. Wade Ferris answers his own phone, and he can have a crew rolling toward the 5 and Washington Boulevard inside the hour. We handle the industrial-scale stuff other restoration companies don’t have the equipment or the stomach for.

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For 29 years, we have done fire and smoke work in Commerce, so we know the building stock, the fire marshal’s expectations, and the insurance dance. You’re not getting a trainee with a checklist. You’re getting a locally owned crew that has pulled soot out of tilt-up warehouses, old rail-car maintenance sheds, and the modest 1940s homes tucked behind Commerce’s industrial corridors. And every job comes with a written 90-Day Done Right Promise: if it’s not right, Wade makes it right.

• Key takeaway: A single warehouse fire in Commerce can displace 50,000+ square feet of active distribution space. We bring commercial desiccant drying, HEPA air scrubbing, and hazmat-aware demo protocols.
• Key takeaway: Same-day board-up and tarping is standard. We know Commerce’s older overhead wet-pipe sprinklers fail on freeze nights, and a charred roof opening can’t wait.
• Key takeaway: You get a live person on the phone, a written scope before work starts, and direct adjuster coordination. No answering service. No national-chain runaround.

Why Wade’s Restoration of California Is Commerce’s Preferred Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Company

Commerce isn’t a suburb. It’s a city of under 13,000 people and a few thousand acres of warehouse, distribution, and manufacturing rooftops. That changes everything about fire restoration. A residential crew from Maywood or Bell Gardens might know how to clean a kitchen fire in a 1940s bungalow. They generally do not know how to manage smoke migration through a 400-foot shared wall cavity, or how to document inventory loss across thirty thousand feet of active racking for a commercial adjuster.

We do. Our Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration team has spent years working the industrial corridor along Eastern Avenue, Bandini Boulevard, and the freight yards near the 710. So when a Commerce facility manager calls us about a fire in Bay 7 of a six-bay tilt-up, we already know the building likely has asbestos in the built-up roofing and the original pipe insulation. We know the fire walls might not extend all the way to the deck. We know what the Commerce fire inspector will ask for before we open a wall.

Wade Ferris founded this company in 2007 and never franchised it. His name is on the truck, his cell number is on the estimate, and he will be the one standing in your warehouse bay when the adjuster shows up. You’ll see the same face from the first call to the final walkthrough. That matters in Commerce, where people still check who they’re dealing with before they let anyone on the property.

Our Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Services in Commerce

Fire Damage Cleanup

We remove charred debris, compromised drywall, and burned insulation from warehouses, offices, and the older Commerce homes near the Rio Hondo channel. In commercial spaces, that often means cutting out smoke-damaged sections of tilt-up wall panels and evaluating the steel roof trusses for heat distortion. Soot and char get sealed off so the smell doesn’t keep circulating through the HVAC. For a 1940s Commerce house with plaster walls, we’re careful about what we demo, because the original materials often contain asbestos, and the wrong cut turns a $4,000 cleanup into a hazmat stop-work.

Smoke & Soot Removal

Smoke in a Commerce warehouse doesn’t just sit. It travels through the open truss space, into pallet racking, inside electrical panels, and across every flat surface in the bay. We run HEPA air scrubbers in rotation with Phoenix desiccant dehumidifiers, wipe down racking and conveyor systems with chemical sponges, and clean the soot out of dock doors and loading equipment. In a residential fire, we handle soot on plaster, baseboards, ceiling joists, and the inside of drawers where pressure pushed smoke through the gaps.

Odor Removal & Deodorization

This is where residential crews fail most often on Commerce commercial jobs. A burned bay in a shared industrial building sends smoke through wall cavities and into the tenant next door. If you don’t treat the cavity, that odor comes back in three weeks and the neighbor is filing a claim against your policy. We use hydroxyl generators, thermal fogging, and in the worst cases we seal and treat the shared wall itself. For the 90101 zip code’s residential areas, we treat plaster walls, subfloor cavities, and the attic spaces that hold smoke long after the fire’s out.

Contents Cleaning & Pack-Out

When your Commerce distribution center loses a bay to fire, the product doesn’t stop being valuable. We pack out salvageable inventory, catalog it with photo documentation, clean what can be cleaned off-site, and store it until you’re ready. For a retail warehouse, that might mean hundreds of cartons with cosmetic smoke damage. We’ll tell you straight which inventory is worth cleaning and which should be written off, because the adjuster is going to ask that same question and you’ll want a defensible answer. On the residential side, we clean furniture, clothing, and keepsakes from Commerce’s older homes, and we treat the stuff with odor after the structure is done.

Emergency Board-Up & Tarping

The first 24 hours after a fire decide how much more you’re going to lose. An open roof lets rain in, lets thieves walk through, and lets the smoke smell set deeper. We board up and tarp burned sections same-day across Commerce. That includes the sprawling distribution centers along Bandini and the tight residential lots near Atlantic Avenue. No trip charge inside our own county. One call and Wade’s on the road.

Structural Fire Repair

Some fires just need cleanup. Some compromise the roof deck, the wall framing, or the concrete tilt-up panels themselves. We do both. For Commerce’s commercial stock, that means evaluating bar joists, repairing or replacing roof sections, and rebuilding fire-separated walls to current code. For a 1940s home with original framing, we sister new lumber where needed and preserve what’s still sound. We’re not a cleanup crew that hands off the build-back to a stranger. We see it through, and the 90-Day Done Right Promise applies to the rebuild too.

Trusted Brands We Service in Commerce

Our work passes the inspection of insurance adjusters, Commerce building officials, and the facility engineers who inherit the building after we leave. That’s why we run professional-grade equipment from Phoenix and Dri-Eaz, and why our team holds IICRC certification with RIA and IFA affiliations backing the work. When a Commerce warehouse needs a desiccant unit that can pull moisture from 60,000 square feet of concrete, we bring the Phoenix. When a 1940s Commerce home needs a quieter air mover for a tight plaster hallway, we bring the Dri-Eaz. The right tool for the building, not the same van pack for every job.

Common Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Problems We See in Commerce Homes

• Smoke migration through shared warehouse walls. Commerce’s tilt-up buildings share party walls between bays. A fire in one bay can push smoke through the wall cavity into the tenant next door, and the odor complaint shows up two weeks after the fire’s out. We treat the cavity, not just the burned bay.
• Asbestos in mid-century roofing and pipe insulation. Most of Commerce’s warehouse stock was built between 1945 and 1975. Built-up roofing, floor tiles, and pipe wrap from that era commonly contain asbestos. We test before we demo, every time. A hazmat stop-work order costs more than the testing.
• Failed wet-pipe sprinkler systems after freeze nights or seismic jolts. Commerce’s older warehouses run overhead wet-pipe sprinklers on mid-century fire codes. A rare freeze night near the LA River channel or a small earthquake can crack a fitting and dump water across an active distribution floor, often right after a small fire. That’s a commercial drying job, not a residential one.
• Hidden moisture in tilt-up concrete after a fire. Firefighters put a lot of water on a warehouse fire. The concrete slab soaks it up. If you just run residential air movers, the surface looks dry and then the rebar starts corroding. We use desiccant dehumidification sized for the square footage, not guesswork.

Pricing for Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration in Commerce, CA

We Also Serve Cities Near Commerce

We handle fire and smoke work throughout Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration in Commerce and the communities next door. If you’re in Maywood, Bell, Cudahy, or Bell Gardens and you’ve had a fire, the same crew, the same equipment, and the same 90-Day Promise apply. No trip charge inside our own county, and Wade still answers the phone.

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