New Woodland Scenics fire press release

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Found on another forum

Woodland Scenics Recovers Quickly from Fire at Manufacturing Plant

Woodland Scenics experienced a fire at their manufacturing plant in Linn Creek, Missouri on Thursday, January 5, 2012. The determined cause of the fire was the failure of an electrical motor. Osage Beach Fire Department and several other central Missouri fire departments assisted, responding quickly and containing the fire.

The fire took eight percent of Woodland Scenics total facilities. Manufacturing and shipping operations in other buildings continued even as the firefighters fought the blaze. Several employees temporarily displaced by the fire, returned to work Friday morning to assist with clean-up and resume business operations, and many continued to work through the weekend. All employees were back to work Monday morning, January 9.

“While we still have some clean-up to do,” said CEO Dwayne Fulton, “our dedicated Woodland Scenics team has pitched in 110% to make sure we continued with business as usual! We are most grateful that no one was hurt. Friends and customers from all over the world contacted us to offer their encouragement, prayers and help. We are very appreciative and humbled by this outpouring of support.”

 

[oxfordlawn]

their websites homepage has a letter posted as well. which I thought it was worded very nice

 

[LoudMusic]

Sounds like maybe they didn't get hit as hard as previously expected.

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Apparently the fire effected only a very smal percentage of their operation. Reports were out early on indicating that their operations wouldn't be effected. That didn't stop some from going out and snatching up everything on the shelves in a spree of panic buying.

 

[NH Mike]

Good news about a not good event. Its refreshing to hear the damage was less than originally reported and nobody was put out of work because of it.

A lot of credit to the fire departments who responded for getting it under control and putting it out quickly. From the sounds of the first news article water to fight the fire was in short supply.

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

A lot of credit to the fire departments who responded for getting it under control and putting it out quickly. From the sounds of the first news article water to fight the fire was in short supply.

Water supplies in a small town are usually quite limited. On a water shuttle practice in a small town near here we overran the towns water supply in less than 45 minutes and we weren't even trying hard. On an evaluation run the supply was exhausted in under 30 minutes. That's why it's so important for depts in small towns and cities to work together. Water often has to be brought in from rivers, lakes, ponds, other towns. It's not unusual for depts here to have two trucks on scene and up to 8 to 12 trucks bringing water in a steady supply.

 

[NH Mike]

Water supplies in a small town are usually quite limited. On a water shuttle practice in a small town near here we overran the towns water supply in less than 45 minutes and we weren't even trying hard. On an evaluation run the supply was exhausted in under 30 minutes. That's why it's so important for depts in small towns and cities to work together. Water often has to be brought in from rivers, lakes, ponds, other towns. It's not unusual for depts here to have two trucks on scene and up to 8 to 12 trucks bringing water in a steady supply.

That's basically what I was getting at Jeffrey. Practice, teamwork and cooperation by all fire personnel involved. A common practice in small communities out this way is to run a pipe from the shore of a lake out deep enough to where the water doesn't freeze when the pond or lake ices over. At the deep end of the pipe is a strainer to keep junk out. Trucks can hook up to the pipe and fill up. Locally it is called pond suction and works very well.

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

A common practice in small communities out this way is to run a pipe from the shore of a lake out deep enough to where the water doesn't freeze when the pond or lake ices over. At the deep end of the pipe is a strainer to keep junk out. Trucks can hook up to the pipe and fill up. Locally it is called pond suction and works very well.

We have those here too. We call them dry hydrants. Hook up to one, pull a draft on it to pull the air out then suck up however much water is needed. We don't use them much anymore since the multi-community water system went in.

 

[Dave S]

Here in Rehoboth they have dug small roadside ponds all around town just for filling up their tanker trucks so they never have to travel very far in the event of a fire.