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Orianna Rosa Royle

Disaster restoration company Belfor cleaned up after 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina—and its billionaire CEO says it's 'ready' for post-election civil war

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When tragedy strikes, Belfor is ready and waiting to clean up the mess left behind. As the world’s largest disaster recovery company, it receives around 330,000 callouts a year and has over 12,000 employees globally equipped to deal with the fallout from hurricanes, flooding, terrorist attacks, and more. 

Right now, its CEO Sheldon Yellen is in Florida—just weeks after Hurricanes Helene and Milton have ravaged the state. It’s what he’s been doing for nearly four decades. Yellen and his team were there to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attack, Hurricane Katrina, and the Thai floods in 2011, to name a few.

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