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 Valley City, name the community in the first hour, because Hunter, Granger, Chesterfield, and Redwood are four plumbing eras wearing one city name. Photograph the source as found: the split line, the sump pit, the entry line at the door. If you rent, send the photos to the owner the same hour you take them; the cleanup file built on day one is the record both sides of the lease will use.
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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