Huge fire destroys business in Linn Creek
LINN CREEK, Mo. -- A fire engulfed Woodland Scenics, a business that makes miniature scenery for model train layouts and other uses, in the downtown area on Thursday afternoon. It's across the street from city hall. The fire destroyed two of the company's three buildings. The company employs 150 people. Many were working when the fire broke out a little after noon. They all got out safely. Osage Beach Fire Protection District, Mid-County Fire Protection District, Camdenton Fire Department,Lake Ozark Fire Protection District and five other districts fought the fire and worked to protect nearby buildings. They had to transport water to the scene to battle the blaze.
What a blow to them. It is a blow to us too, but we are not going to be out of work. I hope they are insured and didn't lose any of their molds. They would be hard to replace.
My heart goes out to the employees and the company.
Charlie
Link from RMWeb
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There is also video footage that I couldn't link to.
Weren't they aquired by walthers recently?
tomustang Wrote:Weren't they aquired by walthers recently?
I sure hope they weren't While. Walthers has done a lot for the hobby, it seems to me that since they aquired Life-Like that prices have soared.
Charlie
Yes, I also hope that they can rebuild using insurance money.
I think Noch and Faller also sell scenery but theirs are very different products.
More descriptive subject line, please.
That is a blow to the hobby. Hopefully, they will be able to rebuild and continue.
Why would someone build a business nowhere near a water supply? Fire insurance must have been sky-high. :?
I saw something about that on Facebook earlier. The fireground pics I saw are intense.
Matt
Found it on yahoogroup.com:
QUOTE:
Dear all,
As you may have heard we have experienced a fire here at Woodland Scenics
and there is good news and bad news. The good news is that no one was hurt
during the fire or evacuation process. The bad news is that it took out a
couple of our manufacturing buildings. However, and fortunately, there is
more good news than bad.
We encompass multiple buildings that are spread out all over the town of
Linn Creek. We only lost two of those buildings and those two contained just
a small portion of our manufacturing facilities. Our shipping department,
warehouse andcorporate offices were spared any damage, as were most of our
manufacturing buildings, so it is business as usual.
Thanks for all your concerns.
Respectfully,
Gale Cousins
Director of Sales &
Customer Service
Woodland Scenics
END QUOTE
Thanks for letting us all know about the fire at Woodland Scenics Lester.
I am glad everyone got out safely,that fire sure was intense.
I found the information about insufficient town water supply to fight the fire to be very disturbing to say the least. No point having big shiny fire trucks with impressive pumping capacities if you don't have access to enough water. Look for the yellow storage pool in video clip 4 being topped up while the other trucks are busy sucking it dry. I found it a bit strange that they were using a storage pool and not direct connections to the tanker trucks.
Watching the video got me thinking about a new type of fire truck I saw at one of the US fire truck manufacturer's websites. It basically is a truck with a hydraulic telescoping arm that is equipped with a spike that can break through roofs and walls to then push a sprinkler head in to fight the fire.
Mark
Mr Fixit Wrote:Thanks for letting us all know about the fire at Woodland Scenics Lester.
I am glad everyone got out safely,that fire sure was intense.
I found the information about insufficient town water supply to fight the fire to be very disturbing to say the least. No point having big shiny fire trucks with impressive pumping capacities if you don't have access to enough water. Look for the yellow storage pool in video clip 4 being topped up while the other trucks are busy sucking it dry. I found it a bit strange that they were using a storage pool and not direct connections to the tanker trucks.
Sad to see Woodland Senics having to suffer this loss.
I see that having shiny fire trucks says to me that the fire department maintains and has pride in their equipment which always needs to work if they are to be effective when responding to fires. Its not strange and is standard practice for fire departmensts to use those "pools" to transfer water from the tankers to the pumpers. When hydrants are not close by they will set up this delivery system and call in many neighboring FD's that also own tankers to provide a constant supply of water to fight the fire. When a tanker is empty it leaves to refill and then return with a fresh supply of water.
I just read on another forum a message from the Director of Sales & Customer Service at WS, explaining the situation. Apparently their manufacturing facilities are spread out all over the town - 10 buildings in all, and the two severly damaged will not impact their operation as bad as we all thought. According to him, it'll be "business as usual".
"Water Shuttling Operations" are fairly common. Way back when, when I was a volunteer firefighter, we trained and drilled on that frequently. Even in areas with hydrants close by, that many pieces of equipment over-burden the water supply. Therefore a "Draft Tank" is set up to siphon water from. Tanker trucks will go to another water source (I have even been part of this operation that drafted water from swimming pools) is located and the water is brought in a circuit to the tank.
Matt