Hour one is about the source: main shutoff or appliance valve, power off to wet rooms if water is near outlets, and phone photos of everything before it moves. Insurers and adjusters work from documentation, and the first hour is when the documentation is honest.
In West Jordan, name the water's season in the first hour. If it is spring and the river is running high, photograph the floor wall joint and the yard, because ground water leaves a different record than a burst. If it is winter and a line let go, shut off the main and photograph the wall base before anything is cut. Either way, the basement is living space in this city, so the first day's photos should cover the rooms your family actually uses down there, not just the utility corner.
Hours two to six are extraction territory. Standing water does not wait politely: it wicks up drywall roughly an inch an hour at first and runs under flooring along the subfloor. A shop vac handles a spill; a room of water needs truck-mounted or portable extraction and then real drying equipment, not a box fan.
By hour twenty-four the question changes from 'is it wet' to 'what is still wet.' Moisture meters, not fingertips, answer that. If a contractor cannot show you readings, the drying is a guess - and guesses are how mold shows up in month two.
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