Fast, Reliable Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Across Pomona
Fire and smoke damage restoration in Pomona typically runs $2,800 to $9,500 for a standard kitchen fire, with full structural rebuilds reaching $40,000 or more depending on how far the flames and smoke traveled. We get a live person on the phone 24 hours a day, and Wade Ferris can have a crew on the road to your Pomona neighborhood within the hour. If you’re standing in a house that smells like an ashtray and you’re not sure where to start, call (855) 915-0646 right now. We’ll walk you through what happens next, step by step, before anyone shows up at your door.
Pomona is home turf for us. We know the 91766 and 91767 ZIPs, the Craftsman bungalows near Lincoln Park, the mid-century tract homes off Garey Avenue, and the multi-family rentals that line Holt Boulevard. That matters because fire restoration here isn’t a one-size-fits-all job. But we’ll get into that below.
Why Wade’s Restoration of California Is Pomona’s Preferred Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Company
Wade Ferris started this company in 2007, and he’s the one who answers the phone. Not a call center, not an answering service. You call, Wade picks up, and he’s the same person who shows up at your house in Pomona with a moisture meter and a written scope of work before anything gets torn out. That’s how we’ve built our name in this city: one house at a time, with a published address, a license number, and a face you’ll see again at the farmers market on Garey.
Our Pomona customers regularly tell us the same thing: they were bracing for a corporate runaround, and instead they got a straight answer and a crew that showed up when they said they would. We run IICRC-certified technicians, RIA-affiliated protocols, and we back every fire and smoke restoration job with our 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing. If it’s not done right, Wade comes back and makes it right. No fine print, no phone tag with a regional manager you’ll never meet.
When a kitchen fire breaks out at 2 a.m. in a 1950s rental on San Antonio Avenue, you don’t have time to wait for a national chain to route your call through three states. You need someone who knows Pomona’s housing stock, knows the Building & Safety office requirements, and can have extraction and board-up running before sunrise. That’s us. And if your carrier needs photos, moisture logs, or a direct line to us, we’ll handle it. We deal with the adjuster so you don’t have to play telephone tag between two parties who never seem to be awake at the same time.
Our Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Services in Pomona
Smoke & Soot Removal
Smoke doesn’t stop at the room where the fire started. In Pomona’s older wood-frame homes, especially the pre-1970 builds concentrated in 91766 and 91767, smoke travels through wall cavities, under baseboards, and into attics where original single-pane windows and unsealed plaster cracks let fine particulate drift everywhere. We use HEPA air scrubbers and dry-chem sponges to pull soot off walls, ceilings, framing, and HVAC duct interiors. This isn’t a wipe-down job; it’s surgical cleaning, and missing a layer means the smell comes back in six months.
Odor Removal & Deodorization
Odor lives in porous materials: drywall, plaster, hardwood subfloor, insulation, and the original lath-and-plaster walls you find in Craftsman-era homes across Pomona. We don’t mask odor with sprays. We find the source, seal what can be sealed, and run hydroxyl generators and thermal fogging in sequence so the smoke smell is actually gone, not just covered up. In Pomona’s older rentals and Victorians, this often means treating wall cavities that haven’t seen daylight since the Eisenhower administration.
Contents Cleaning & Pack-Out
After a fire, the stuff you’d grab if you had thirty seconds (photos, documents, your grandmother’s quilt) is covered in fine soot that eats fabrics over time. We offer full contents cleaning and pack-out for Pomona homes, including on-site cleaning for salvageable items and off-site storage through a vetted facility when the structure isn’t safe to keep things in. Every item gets documented and photographed before it leaves. If there’s a fire, you’ll deal with the adjuster, and we hand you a full inventory your carrier can use directly.
Structural Fire Repair
When framing is charred or compromised, this moves from cleanup to reconstruction, and that’s work we scope and price in writing like a remodel, not a dispatch call. Older Pomona homes frequently have unpermitted added drywall, especially in the rental-dense blocks of north Pomona (91767), and that changes the math on demolition and code compliance with the City of Pomona Building & Safety division. We work with inspectors and your adjuster to get permits and hazmat protocols squared away before any wall comes down. No surprises, no stop-work orders.
What happens when you call
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A real person answersNo phone trees - you reach a local pro.
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You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched.
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A background-checked tech heads outLicensed & insured, dispatched right away.
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Trusted Brands We Service in Pomona
We run professional-grade equipment from Dri-Eaz, Phoenix, and B-Air on every fire and smoke job in Pomona, because the right air scrubber and the right drying technology actually changes how the smoke smell behaves. We don’t service national-brand rigs; we maintain our own fleet and stock parts locally, so you’re not waiting on a warehouse in another state to ship a replacement fan. For Pomona customers, that means faster turnaround and a crew that knows exactly what each machine can do.
Common Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Problems We See in Pomona Homes
- Asbestos hidden in pre-1970 construction: Most Pomona homes built before 1970 carry asbestos-containing floor adhesives or textured ceilings, and standard fire-damage demolition can spread friable fibers and trigger a costly stop-work order if it’s not caught before the demo crew fires up the saws. We test before we tear.
- Santa Ana-driven smoke intrusion: When brush fires burn in the foothills above the Pomona Valley, Santa Ana winds push ultra-fine ash through original single-pane windows and unsealed plaster cracks in older 91766 and 91767 homes. Cleaning only visible soot leaves a persistent odor, because the fine ash is buried in wall cavities and attic insulation.
- Unpermitted added drywall hiding damage: In older north Pomona rentals, we consistently find that one or more layers of unpermitted drywall were added over original plaster. Smoke and fire damage hide behind those layers, and removal requires code-compliance review with the City of Pomona before restoration can close out.
- Compromised original millwork in historic homes: The Lincoln Park historic district holds Victorians and Craftsman-era homes from the 1890s through the 1920s, and smoke damage to original millwork and plaster isn’t something you solve with standard drywall-era restoration protocols. Those materials require hand-cleaning and sealing, not replacement with off-the-shelf trim.
Pricing for Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration in Pomona, CA
Here’s what we actually see in Pomona: smoke and soot removal on a contained kitchen fire runs $2,800 to $5,400. Odor removal and full deodorization adds $1,200 to $3,000 depending on how far the smoke traveled through wall cavities and HVAC. Contents cleaning and pack-out for a standard 3-bedroom home in the 91766 ZIP typically lands between $2,500 and $6,000 when you factor in off-site storage and inventory. Full structural fire repair, including framing and finish work, starts around $8,000 and climbs from there. We never quote one price on the phone and another at the door. You’ll get a written scope of work, and we honor our standing offers: $40 off any repair over $200, a free second opinion on any written estimate, no trip charge inside our own county, and a permanent Senior & Veteran 10% discount. Call (855) 915-0646 for a free estimate.
We Also Serve Cities Near Pomona
Our crews work throughout the Pomona Valley and the surrounding foothill communities. You’ll find us regularly in San Dimas, La Verne, Charter Oak, and Diamond Bar, whether it’s a foothill brush-fire smoke job or a kitchen fire in a mid-century tract home. For more detail on what we handle and how we price work in the broader region, see our Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration page. And if you’re looking for what specific neighborhoods we cover here, read more about Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration in Pomona.
Serving Pomona, CA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Pomona area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs - Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration in Pomona
Santa Ana winds funnel through the passes at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains and drive brush-fire smoke and ultra-fine ash directly into Pomona neighborhoods, especially the 91766 and 91767 ZIPs where older wood-frame homes have original single-pane windows and unsealed plaster cracks. You’ll see gray film on windowsills and smell smoke even in homes nowhere near the fire, because the wind forces ash through gaps you can’t see. Call (855) 915-0646 and we’ll assess whether this is a surface-clean situation or a full deodorization job.
Yes, in most pre-1970 Pomona homes, including nearly all of the 91766 and 91767 housing stock and the Victorians in the Lincoln Park historic district. Floor adhesives and textured ceilings commonly contain asbestos, and California hazmat rules require testing and abatement protocols before any demolition that could release fibers. Another reason to call us: we coordinate the testing and any required abatement so your project doesn’t get red-tagged by Building & Safety.
The unpermitted drywall has to be removed down to the permitted structural layer, and that removal triggers code-compliance review with the City of Pomona Building & Safety division. We handle the permits and the inspector coordination, and we work directly with your adjuster so the restoration doesn’t stall while the paperwork catches up. This is a common issue in older north Pomona rentals (91767), and we’ve been through it enough times to know the city’s expectations.
You can’t gut a 1910 Craftsman and hang new drywall; you have to hand-clean original plaster and millwork, seal what can be sealed, and run thermal fogging and hydroxyl generators long enough to break down the smoke odor inside the original materials. We’ve done this in Pomona’s historic district, and we know the difference between a home you can save and a wall that has to come out. Call us at (855) 915-0646 and we’ll give you a straight answer on which one you’re dealing with.
Yes. We clean salvageable contents on-site wherever it’s safe, and we only pack out items that are too damaged to remain, so you’re not paying to store things that never needed to leave. Pomona has a lot of small multi-family rentals along Holt and Garey, and we know how to work in tight spaces without disrupting your neighbors. We’ll document every item before it moves, and your insurance carrier gets the full inventory.
Written by Wade Ferris, Owner at Wade’s Restoration of California, serving Pomona since 2007.