Desk Jockey
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Its just been killer busy this week with water work (7-WDR losses in the last week) and then last night......Fire Extinguisher powder.
We received a call around 9:30 that a fire extinguisher had fallen off a shelf at a nationwide pet store. The manager said a customer knocked it over and the valve broke, sending the fire extinguisher spinning spewing powder until it emptied its contents all over the retail floor.
The affected area was 4-6,000 sq/ft of the store (the products, shelving and floor) had a film of fine powder of on it.
Upon arrival we setup two 1-HP vortex axial fans and ducting to exhaust particulate outdoors . We also setup HEPA Air Scrubbers to process the air in the store while cleaning was taking place and capture airborne particulate.
The powder was heaviest lower as a result of the spinning and lighter on the higher shelves. The products the contaminated areas the products were HEPA vacuumed, product removed and shelving cleaned and the products wiped down then then restocked.
12-technician’s worked until 4:00 AM cleaning up the extinguisher powder.
"....and I helped!"
Amazingly we had two band new HEPA vacuums stilling here in our office. Dan had wanted to update some of our vacuums. We have 12-Pullman Holt HEPA vacuums but some are nearly 10-years old and don't look as good as they perform. So we broke in the two new Nikro's at this job. Already earning their keep.
We received a call around 9:30 that a fire extinguisher had fallen off a shelf at a nationwide pet store. The manager said a customer knocked it over and the valve broke, sending the fire extinguisher spinning spewing powder until it emptied its contents all over the retail floor.
The affected area was 4-6,000 sq/ft of the store (the products, shelving and floor) had a film of fine powder of on it.
Upon arrival we setup two 1-HP vortex axial fans and ducting to exhaust particulate outdoors . We also setup HEPA Air Scrubbers to process the air in the store while cleaning was taking place and capture airborne particulate.
The powder was heaviest lower as a result of the spinning and lighter on the higher shelves. The products the contaminated areas the products were HEPA vacuumed, product removed and shelving cleaned and the products wiped down then then restocked.
12-technician’s worked until 4:00 AM cleaning up the extinguisher powder.
"....and I helped!"
Amazingly we had two band new HEPA vacuums stilling here in our office. Dan had wanted to update some of our vacuums. We have 12-Pullman Holt HEPA vacuums but some are nearly 10-years old and don't look as good as they perform. So we broke in the two new Nikro's at this job. Already earning their keep.
