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One important thing to add:

If you or your loved ones are involved in cleaning up the remains of people's property, make sure you all have properly fitting and adequate respirators and other PPE! Lots of things release really nasty stuff when they burn, especially a lot of household chemicals and materials - much of which is associated with lung cancer later in life.
Station someone to take photos of everything. This is hugely important in contents claims. Give an elderly person or young person a camera and put them next to the dumpster with instructions that nothing should go in that doesn't have a picture. Film is free.