When the Trans-Canada Highway was washed out by flooding last November, First OnSite Restoration Ltd.’s Jim Mandeville had to fly into Abbotsford to help with disaster relief. “This was a first. It’s something that we really hadn’t considered as part of a flood,” Mandeville, senior vice-president of large loss, said about the damage to one of Canada’s most important roadways. “That certainly made things a bit more difficult, because a lot of heavy equipment, a lot of resources that come into and out of the Lower Mainland have to go across that Trans-Canada Highway.”