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Written by Matthew Haughey on 2025-01-31 at 14:30

Earlier this week our house smoke alarm went off in the night, we awoke to smell something burning, so we called 911 to get it double-checked by the fire department. In the end, it wasn’t a live fire and everything was ok, just issues with our HVAC

But here’s the weird part…

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Written by Matthew Haughey on 2025-01-31 at 14:33

Around 9am someone knocks on our door. A guy says he’s from a fire company and my spouse thought it was an alarm company rep. I say “but we don’t have an alarm company account.”

We realize it’s an ambulance chaser from a disaster cleanup company…

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Written by Matthew Haughey on 2025-01-31 at 14:37

4hrs after the local fire department left our house, a pushy salesman from Servpro was at our door dropping pamphlets and trying to get hired.

Do these fuckers listen to police scanners? Then send out reps?

What a disgusting business model, trying to seem deeply caring while aggressively chasing customers

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Written by Matthew Haughey on 2025-01-31 at 14:41

I’m honestly wondering how they took 911 calls and turned them into sales leads. How does Servpro get access to 911 call logs? Are there public feeds of 911 requests?

Moral of the story: Servpro is a disgusting company that uses invasive sales tactics and should be avoided.

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Toot

Written by Evan KC2IHX (he/him) on 2025-01-31 at 15:23

@mathowie

Hey, @ai6yr, you monitor the computer-aided dispatch for your area - any chance that's where this information could be coming from?

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Written by AI6YR Ben on 2025-01-31 at 15:27

@kc2ihx @mathowie These guys listen to the scanner feeds and basically ambulance chase. Definitely be wary of these folks, esp. that particularly company. When I had an issue at my house I called my insurer to get their preferred vendor for the immediate remediation (to avoid these kinds of issues... no guarantee of course, but at least you won't be fighting your insurer over getting payment).

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