You are called to this call. We will see if anyone knows about equipment in big grocery stores.

You get a call for a burning smell in the bagel department at your local food store. The bakery manager tells you the smell is coming from the bagel oven. You see no smoke or nothing burning but can smell something hot. Where is the fire and how do find it and how do you handle the fire knowing this is a $75,000 oven?

This is where i got sent today to assist a city fire department with this call.

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Permalink Reply by Derek J Sinesi on April 17, 2012 at 8:20pm

Ben, I guess you cheated a little. Ha Ha! I just wonder how many departments that are out there that have this kind of equipment in there fire districts and don't even realize it. In my 10 years of working on this type of equipment i have traveled up to 125 miles to disassemble meat grinders to make a recovery for fire departments just because they didn't have a clue what to do when the tools they had would not work. I am in no way saying anything bad about this city's department or really bragging about them other then i was surprised that they had never giving this type of equipment any thought. I would hope that this little decision will make departments that have not thought about this stuff to start and go identify it and make a plan of action. I am always willing to help answering questions anyone may have on this stuff. FETC you are right if you spay any type of dry chemical extinguisher in a food prep area the health department will shut it down. Every piece of food that was not in a sealed cooler as to be throw out and the whole department has to be deep cleaned and sanitized. This will run the store anyplace from $1000.00 to $25000.00 depending on the size of the area.