Fast, Reliable Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Across Pomona
Fire damage in Pomona moves fast. Smoke and soot settle into drywall, ductwork, and soft goods within hours, and the acidic residue starts etching metal fixtures and glass the moment the flames go out. You need someone who knows the housing stock in the 91766, 91767, and 91769 ZIP codes and will actually answer the phone. Wade’s Restoration of California has been the locally owned, owner-operated Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration team Pomona calls when the fire crew leaves and the real cleanup begins. If you’re looking at charred framing or a house yellowed by smoke, call Wade at (855) 915-0646 now. He answers his own phone, 24/7.
Why Wade’s Restoration of California Is Pomona’s Preferred Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Company
Wade Ferris put his name on the truck in 2007 and hasn’t taken it off. When a Pomona homeowner calls, they don’t get a call center in another state. Wade or one of his background-checked crew members answers, and Wade heads out himself on the big ones. That’s how an owner-operated shop works.
We’ve cut our teeth on Pomona’s older homes. The pre-1970s wood-frame tract houses in the 91766 and 91767 ZIPs, the Victorians and Craftsman-era places in the Lincoln Park historic district, the narrow crawlspaces under 1940s bungalows. We know where smoke hides in those houses because we’ve pulled it out of lath-and-plaster walls and original hardwood floors that a flat-basin contractor would never think to open. Ask anyone on your street who’s had a fire loss in Pomona. Wade’s name comes up.
Every job carries the 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing. If it’s not done right, Wade makes it right. No runaround, no dispute. That promise is stamped on every restoration contract we hand a Pomona homeowner.
Our Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Services in Pomona
Fire Damage Cleanup
After the flames are out and the water from the fire hose is everywhere, the real danger sits in the char and the slurry it creates. In Pomona, where so many homes sit on pre-1970s wood subfloors, that slurry soaks downward fast. We remove charred material, extract the standing water, set up Dri-Eaz air movers and Phoenix dehumidifiers, and map every affected layer with daily moisture readings. We hand you the full log at the end, not a summary. Almost nobody else in the trade does that.
Smoke & Soot Removal
Smoke is not one thing. There’s the oily soot from a grease fire on Holt Avenue, the dry powder soot from electrical fires in the 91767 rentals, and the fine ash that Santa Ana winds push through single-pane windows in Pomona’s 1940s tract homes. Each one needs a different cleaning chemistry and a different tack. We use HEPA vacuuming, dry sponge cleaning, and solvent-based wet cleaning matched to the surface, so we don’t drive soot deeper into porous plaster or original millwork.
Odor Removal & Deodorization
Getting the black off a wall is the easy part. Getting the smell out of the framing, the insulation, and the HVAC ducts is where a contractor’s skill shows. In Pomona’s older homes, smoke odor lives in places flat-basin crews miss: behind the unpermitted drywall added in the 1990s, inside lath-and-plaster cavities, and in the original galvanized ducting. We run thermal fogging and hydroxyl generators, and we scope the ducts with a camera before we seal anything. If the ductwork in a Lincoln Park Victorian still holds original metal, that has to be addressed, not just masked.
Contents Cleaning & Pack-Out
When a kitchen fire in Pomona doesn’t touch the back bedroom but the smoke did, the contents of that bedroom still need help. We do a full contents inventory, wrap and pack out salvageable items to our cleaning facility, and run soft goods through an Esporta wash system. Electronics get opened and cleaned, not just wiped. If a family in the 91769 ZIP has heirlooms from a Victorian that got soot on them, we flag those for careful hand cleaning, not batch processing.
Emergency Board-Up & Tarping
If your Pomona home has a burned-out wall or a hole in the roof, the board-up has to happen before the next Santa Ana event or an opportunistic burglar gets inside. Wade keeps board-up materials on the truck. One call brings Wade back, and he’ll have the openings sealed the same day. This is not a service you wait on for two days while a national franchise “dispatches” someone from two counties away.
Structural Fire Repair
Once mitigation is complete, the rebuild work starts: framing, drywall, flooring, paint, trim. This is scoped in writing, priced up front, scheduled like the remodel it is, and done by the same crew that did the mitigation. No handoff to a different company. No gap between cleanup and rebuild where a Pomona homeowner is left holding a giant mess and no plan.
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’re not brand-loyal to any equipment vendor; we’re loyal to what dries a Pomona house to spec. That said, the gear we run day to day comes from Dri-Eaz and Phoenix, and we’re a RIA-affiliated shop that follows IICRC standards to the letter. For Pomona homeowners, that means the dehumidifiers on your wet subfloor aren’t rental-store units. They’re commercial-grade machines sized to the cubic footage of the actual rooms we’re drying, not a guess. And because we’re owner-operated, Wade isn’t afraid to tell you when a cheaper, smaller job is the right call. No charge for that honesty.
Common Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Problems We See in Pomona Homes
- Santa Ana ash infiltration through original single-pane windows. Pomona’s inland location at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains makes it ground zero for wind-driven brush-fire ash. That ash is so fine it gets through window gaps and into attic spaces, coating everything with a fine gray film that requires full HVAC duct cleaning, not just a wipe-down.
- Smoke residue hiding inside lath-and-plaster walls of Lincoln Park Victorians. Built in the 1890s-1920s, these homes have wall cavities that act like chimneys during a fire, pulling smoke into spaces a drywall-era contractor would never check. Standard cleaning methods can strip the original finishes and warp irreplaceable millwork if the tech doesn’t know what to look for.
- Firefighting water pooling in crawlspaces over asbestos floor adhesives. Pre-1970s Pomona homes commonly have vinyl tile and adhesives that contain asbestos. When fire-suppression water drains into the crawlspace and mixes with that material, the result is a Category 3 biohazard that unlicensed crews frequently misclassify as simple water damage.
- Unpermitted additions triggering code-compliance issues with Pomona Building & Safety. In the rental-dense blocks of north Pomona (91767), we routinely find that a previous owner added a wall or a second kitchen without a permit. After a fire, those unpermitted areas get exposed, and the city’s Building & Safety division wants to see them brought to code before final sign-off. We coordinate that process so the homeowner isn’t caught flat-footed.
Pricing for Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration in Pomona, CA
Here’s what we actually see in Pomona, not a national average. Emergency board-up and tarping on a typical Pomona single-family home runs $400-$900, depending on how many openings need to be sealed. Smoke and soot removal from a single-story 1940s tract home in the 91766 ZIP usually lands between $2,800 and $6,500 when it includes full HVAC duct cleaning and odor sealing. Contents cleaning and pack-out for a kitchen fire in a 91767 rental typically runs $1,800-$4,200, depending on how much soft goods needs Esporta washing and how much electronics needs deep cleaning. Structural fire repair is scoped in writing, starts at $8,000 on the low end for a contained room, and goes up from there. Adjacent cities like Diamond Bar have newer construction and sometimes lower mitigation costs; Pomona’s older stock pulls the range higher. Call (855) 915-0646 for your exact number. Estimates are free, and we’ll put the scope in writing before any work starts.
We Also Serve Cities Near Pomona
Wade’s Restoration of California covers Pomona and the cities around it. San Dimas and La Verne to the east, Charter Oak to the northwest, and Diamond Bar to the south. If you’re in Pomona proper, we’re inside the county, which means no trip charge. If you’re in a nearby city, call and ask. Wade will tell you straight whether he can get to you today.
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
Yes. Pomona’s hard groundwater accelerates corrosion in the galvanized supply lines common to the city’s pre-1970s housing stock, and the water firefighters use to knock down a blaze moves through those already-weakened lines under pressure. We regularly find that a line that was “fine before the fire” has been weeping for months behind added drywall. That hidden water loss creates mold inside wall cavities, which adds a mold-remediation layer to the fire job and pushes the project cost up. Unlicensed crews miss this because they don’t open the right walls. Call (855) 915-0646 if you suspect the fire exposed plumbing damage in a Pomona home, and Wade will come look.
We don’t use water-heavy cleaning methods on original plaster. For the Victorians in Pomona’s Lincoln Park historic district, we start with dry methods: HEPA vacuuming with soft-bristle attachments, dry chemical sponges, and low-moisture wiping. Then we evaluate whether thermal fogging is appropriate for the space and if the lath-and-plaster cavities need access ports before we seal anything. The goal is to remove smoke residue without stripping a 120-year-old finish. If you own a historic home in the 91766 or 91767 ZIP and it’s taken on smoke from a nearby brush fire or an inside fire, we’ll walk through it with you before any cleaning starts.
Because Pomona has a lot of unpermitted work hiding behind old drywall. When a fire or the subsequent demolition exposes a wall, a kitchen, or a whole addition that was never permitted, the city’s Building & Safety division requires that the exposed work be brought to current code before the restoration can close out. That can add time and cost to a job, and a homeowner who didn’t know about the unpermitted work gets blindsided. We’ve coordinated enough of these code-compliance inspections in the 91767 and 91766 ZIPs to know how to sequence the work so you don’t lose two weeks waiting on an inspector. We deal with the adjuster directly on this too, so the homeowner is never the one stuck relaying information between two sides.
Yes. Ash from brush fires in the foothill zones around the Pomona Valley is extremely fine and often contains corrosive sulfides. When it gets pulled into a home through single-pane windows, attic vents, or a running air conditioner, it settles on circuit boards and inside PC towers, TVs, and appliances. The residue draws moisture and can short out components weeks after the fire. We open and clean affected electronics rather than just wiping the outside, and if they need to go to a specialist, we flag it on the contents inventory so the insurance claim reflects it. In Pomona’s older tract homes, attic gaps and unsealed eaves make this a routine part of a smoke job, not an afterthought.
Pack-out means we inventory every item in the affected rooms, note whether it’s fire-damaged, water-damaged, or fine, then wrap and remove it to our cleaning facility where everything gets processed in the right order: soot first, then water extraction, then drying, then deodorization. For a Pomona home with a small kitchen fire and water damage from suppression efforts, we pull contents from the kitchen, any adjacent rooms with smoke deposition, and any basement or crawlspace areas that took water. The family gets a room-by-room photo inventory. Insurance adjusters in Pomona love this because the documentation is already done. Call (855) 915-0646 to get pack-out started the same day.
Call Wade’s Restoration of California for Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration in Pomona
If you’re reading this from a smoke-damaged house in Pomona, the fastest way to stop the damage from spreading is to call (855) 915-0646. Wade will answer. He’ll ask what happened, tell you what he thinks before he’s seen the property, and head out with a board-up kit and a moisture meter. You get a written scope before any work starts, the 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing, and a name on the truck that’s been here since 2007. One call brings Wade back.
Written by Wade Ferris, Owner at Wade’s Restoration of California, serving Pomona since 2007.