Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Fire Retardant for Schools, Nursing Homes, Eldercare, Day Care and Hospitals

Life Code 101 includes fire safety regulations that govern schools, eldercare, daycare and hospitals in nearly every state. It provides the guidelines that fire marshals and other safety professionals use on a daily basis. It says what things need to be treated with fire retardants, and it is very specific.

We've been getting a lot of calls lately - mainly from schools and nursing homes - that are desperately looking for an easy-to-use fire retardant that can work on holiday decorations. Halloween is gone, but Thanksgiving and Christmas are coming on a like a freight train, and I can hear the fire marshals licking their lips in anticipation of all the citations they are going to write. 
I just posted a WHOLE lot of info on the www.firezoff.com website specific to institutions, builders and uniforms. 
I almost forgot uniforms. We've been getting calls from truck drivers carrying fuels and hazmat materials; they're being required to wear fire-retardant clothing. We have several that are spraying their work shirts and jeans, and carrying a card that says when it was treated, (we provide that free) and it's passing muster. 

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Treating Your Holiday Decorations with Fire Retardant


Halloween and Christmas are two 'highly decorated' holidays, which means lots of paper and fabric on the walls, in the halls and in the lobbies of schools and other public spaces. It also means a lot of work for your local fire marshal. Life Code 101 requires hanging fabrics and paper to be treated with a fire retardant, or the marshal can take all the joy out of Who-ville and make you remove your decorations.

But by simply spraying your decorations - paper, fabric and/or wood - with Fire'z Off Flame Retardant, and showing him your MSDS and Product Spec sheet, you can put the festive back in your festivities. Easy to use, non-toxic and perfect for the do-it-yourselfer, just spray it on and let it dry. Check it out at http://www.firezoff.com.

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Cold Fire saves life in Texas

A few weeks ago in a small town in Texas, a truck rolled over a car. The driver of the car escaped, but the passenger was trapped, with two broken legs, broken collar bone, lacerations and more. The car was on fire and he was trapped. The first responders were a pair of rookies in a brush truck. They grabbed a 2.5 gallon extinguisher that had Cold Fire in it. By now, the flames were in the passenger compartment, burning the seat he was on, the dash, the headliner, and flames were roaring out of the car. He sprayed the victim with the Cold Fire, then went back to the truck to hook up his hose, which took 8 minutes. They finally got the fire out, and use d the ‘jaws of life’ to extricate him. But because the firefighter thought to spray the victim with Cold Fire, the only burns he suffered was a small first degree burn on his arm.