An email I received in May from Captain Howell, Bethel, Alaska. “…I was working a fatality fire on the 29th of April. VENTRY fan is out in the front yard like 12-14 feet from the door, spooled up and blowing like hell. We get the first floor knocked down with a combination of exterior and interior attack. Upstairs is still an inferno. Guys go in the front door do the fastest primary search in the history of the fire service, no victim located, then get out due to uncontrolled fire above. Ladder the upstairs controlled the fire through a back and front window. “Ventry fan worked great until [it was] knocked over, face first into a puddle by some idiot in a red hat*. […] Picked up the fan, reset the angle and pulled the cord, fan goes vroom, vroom again. Some of the muddiest, uneven, garbage and debris covered ground weve worked on in awhile. A traditional fan wouldn’t even have been feasible to use on the small entry deck. *Red hat = Captain :-) You can see the fan placement and hear it running in this video of the attack. Even at a distance, you can see that a conventional fan would not have worked! This kind of feedback is absolutely invaluable and so appreciated by us at VSI. This is why we engineer VENTRY Fans (and LENTRY Systems too, of course) to work well, perform in adverse conditions, and to be versatile and safe! ~ Joan
Posted on: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 20:35:47 +0000
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