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I'm not criticizing or anything like that. I just want to know if they actually crawl down into the basement of the burned out home and try to count 20,001 (rimfire+centerfire) rounds of ammo. I hadn't heard of that before.
How many burned out houses/buildings have you been in?
You may be surprised to know that everything doesn't burn down to a pile of ashes, only on TV/movies.
Yes, if counting them all will result in the insurance company avoiding paying you $200-400K in damages, they will indeed count every round/primer!
Also, I sent the fire chief the following link: Ammunition and the firefighter
It explains a lot about what happens to ammunition should a fire happen.
You'd be surprised. While hanging in my FD waiting on the Chief to get out of a meeting, I found out that 3 FFs on that particular shift own guns and some are gun club members/avid shooters. Our guys seem to know about guns, ammo and the minimal danger posed by ammo in a fire. I don't know how that extrapolates to big city departments.