The order matters more than the effort: safety, clearance, claim, board up, and the things not to touch.
Fire is a named peril. What gets argued is scope. Here is how the claim actually moves.
Why the smell survives cleaning, where it hides, and what actually removes it.
Smoke cleanup in the low thousands versus structural rebuilds: how the number is built.
Plaster, balloon framing, and heating season. How a century of housing writes the first estimate after a Pontiac fire.