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In any disaster, quick
response time is their
forte.
They assemble their
"army" of 300 to move in
on a disaster scene within
hours of the storm. A 32-
-foot motor home they drive
to the scene of any storm
serves as command cen-
tral.
"We'll mobilize carpen-
ters from Alabama and
Georgia; we'll move equip-
ment from Florida; we'll
mobilize labor out of
Detroit and Illinois and
technical staff out of
Maryland and Virginia,"
Mark Fenton explains.
In any disaster, the com-
pany's first task is to
assess damage and deliver
repair-cost estimates to
insurance underwriters.
They have 48 hours to get
the estimate done, and
sometimes individual esti-
mates can run to 1,000
pages.
The employees are
equipped with high-tech
equipment to best com-
plete the job, including a
fleet of 100 vehicles. Yet
living conditions aren't
always the best in this pro-
fession, and employees
sometimes spend nights
with limited supplies in
tents.
"When we were down in
South Carolina after
Hurricane Hugo, we had
four people who did noth-
ing but go out and locate
food and water," Randy
Fenton recalls.
The Fentons believe
most communities are
unprepared for a major cri-
sis like a hurricane. "We
are always much better
organized than the local
governments because we

have a disaster plan that
we've enacted time and
time again," Randy Fenton
says.
"You're dealing with
people's lives here," Mark
Fenton adds, saying many
homeowners are not func-
tional after a home has
been ravaged.
Since Hurricane Fred-
erick pounded Alabama in
1979, Inrecon has been
called to the scene of three
similar emergencies.
These include: Hurricane
Alicia, which devastated
Houston in 1983; Hugo, in
which Inrecon became the
largest contractor on the
scene with over $25 mil-
lion worth of projects; and
the most recent, Andrew,
whose reconstruction costs
have not been totaled.
No project is too small
or too large, the Fentons
say. They have rebuilt
everything from a furni-
ture factory in North
Carolina to a 116-year-old
church in Ohio.
They refurbished the
Southfield High School
library after two teen-
agers firebombed it, caus-
ing $2.5 million worth of
damage. They saved its
21,000 books with a spe-
cial freeze-drying process
that removes moisture
from paper.
The tighter the deadline,
the more technically com-
plex the job, the more the
Fentons thrive. And there
isn't a place they won't go.
"If we were called to
England to handle
Windsor Castle, we would
have gone," Mark Fenton
says, referring to the fire
that destroyed a wing of
the royal residence last
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