Fire Damage Restoration in Salt Lake County, Utah

A house fire is the most disruptive loss a family can face — and the hours after the fire department leaves are disorienting. Your home is open to the weather, soot is settling into every room, firefighting water is soaking into floors, and the insurance process is just beginning. Keystone’s job is to take that chaos and run it as one organized project, from the first sheet of plywood over a broken window to the final coat of paint on the rebuild, which our sister company Keystone BuildWorks handles.

This page is about fires that reached the structure — flames, charring, and burned materials that have to come out and be rebuilt. If flames never touched your home but smoke did — a furnace puff-back, a kitchen fire, a neighbor’s house, or wildfire smoke pulled in through the HVAC — that is a different scope of work, and it is covered on our smoke damage restoration page.

Where we respond

We run fire losses across Salt Lake, Utah, Summit, Wasatch, and Davis Counties from our Bluffdale headquarters — the full Salt Lake and Utah County corridor from Salt Lake City south through Sandy, Draper, Riverton, and Herriman into Lehi, American Fork, Provo, and Spanish Fork, plus Bountiful, Layton, and Farmington in Davis County and the Heber Valley. Two patterns dominate the calls: heating-season fires (furnaces, fireplaces, and chimneys) through a long Utah winter, and summer wildfire and grass fires along the foothill and bench neighborhoods where homes back up to open ground.

Secure first, then stabilize

We start with emergency board-up and roof tarping to protect the property from weather and intrusion — a service your insurance carrier expects within hours, not days. Then we stabilize: extracting firefighting water, setting drying equipment, and establishing power and containment so cleanup can begin safely.

Fire, smoke, water — one scope, one claim

Every fire loss is really three losses: burned materials, smoke and soot contamination, and water damage from suppression. Because Keystone Restoration handles water mitigation and smoke cleanup and our sister company Keystone BuildWorks handles reconstruction — under one roof — your claim has one coordinated file and one schedule instead of three contractors pointing at each other. That’s faster for your family and cleaner for your adjuster.

Seth Saxton holds the IICRC FSRT (Fire and Smoke Restoration Technician) and OCT (Odor Control Technician) certifications, and Keystone Restoration is an IICRC Certified Firm (#70266523).

Contents matter too

Photographs, clothing, furniture, electronics — much of what smoke touches can be professionally cleaned and deodorized. We inventory and pack contents out alongside the structural work; textiles go to a textile specialist and other contents to a trusted contents-cleaning partner, and we’re honest about what’s worth saving versus claiming.

One page per kind of loss

Fire losses differ by what burned, and so does the cleanup. We keep a dedicated page for each: kitchen and grease fires, electrical fires, furnace puffbacks, wildfire smoke, soot cleanup, smoke odor removal, and the water the fire department left behind.