W. Mass - All State Fire Equipment

[PaulR]

*This is not a national vendor or specific product but I thought it might give a lot of folks some good ideas on searching for local good fire protection in their area:

All State Fire Equipment, Inc.
64 Bosworth Street
West Springfield, MA 01089
Phone: 413 732-4590
Fax: 413 732-6041


In addition to the ABC extinguishers I have in my garage I was looking for some water extinguishers in case I have a welding mishap here or there. Upon my research I was looking at $125 for a new Ansul Sentry W02-1 water extinguisher. I called these guys, son and father shop on a side street in West Springfield. He said he has them in stock but why buy a new one unless its for show? He has reconditioned ones for $25 a piece. I went down there the other day and he's got a whole garage full of all types of extinguishers that have been reconditioned for CHEAP. I grabbed two bigass 2.5 gallon water extinguishers, $50, cash out the door. Great insurance, I'm going back at some point to buy more.

He was also telling me how the older ones are much better, brass valves inside and all that. He says if you want any kind of chance of actually defeating a fire, don't buy that **** they sell in the big box stores.

Paul

 

[Chachi11]

Totatlly agree with not buying fire extinguishers from "big box stores". We now have a customer who before using us, had a "plastic" big box store fire extinguisher on one of his professional "zero turn" mowers. His gas line malfunctioned, which led to the mower catching on fire. When he tried to use the fire extinguisher he bought from the big box store, it didn't work. The $6,000 plus mower was a total loss..

He now has quality fire extinguisher's on all of his machines, trailers, shops and vehicles. We check these for him every year to ensure they are "good to go".