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When a fire roared through their Palm Coast, FL neighborhood, Jim and Debby Hodges fled so quickly they had to leave behind their beloved mutt Elvis. What they didn't know was that off-duty firefighter John Bartlett had sprayed the Hodges property with his experimental fire-stopping gel. When Jim and Debby returned, not only did they find their house untouched by fire, but Elvis's doghouse was blessedly intact - with it's "…hunk-a, hunk-a tail waggin' love" safe inside!! The only thing burning on Elvis was his gratitude to John and his new gel. As Jim Hodges puts it, "That gel is the best invention since the fire truck".Saved by the Gel - California 2005. When most of the country was focused on the flooding in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, another natural disaster was monopolizing the attention of residents in the hills of Southern California. Wildfire in Sanford, California was threatening hundreds of homes in the Thousand Oaks area. Homeowner Patricia Pfizer was facing certain devastation when firefighters sprayed Barricade Fire Blocking Gel onto her wood shake roof just 2 hours before the fire came over the ridge. "I didn't have the energy to take anything out of the house," said Ms. Pfizer, "so the idea that it was going to be safe was incredibly important." After returning from the evacuation zone, Patricia was relieved & amazed to find no fire damage at all.
Fire blocking gels have successfully been used in fires sine the 1998 Canadian fires at Slave Lake, as well as in the 1998 Florida fires and 2000 Montana fires. Reports from these fires further support lab test results as to the insulating value of gel application during structure protection.Vic MacKenzie, a firefighter with the DeLuz Fire Department in San Diego County reported that he and his fellow firefighters saved 11 homes in November, 2003 with Barricade Gel. "We didn't lose a home the whole time we were there" MacKenzie said. "I think this product will become like having fire sprinklers in your home," he added.
Greg Seaton, an ecstatic private homeowner in Simi Valley described the flame heights of more than fifty feet that raged through his property. Using his own hose, he had coated his home with Barricade Gel, and it came through unscathed
In January 2007 Barricade was nominated for the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics recognizes businesses that make innovations in chemistry that prevent pollution and reduce the impact of chemicals on human health and the environment. Barricade provides a favorable alternative to other less environmentally friendly products for aerial use of fire retardants. Barricade ® II is the first and only liquid fire gel concentrate that has been approved for use by the Forest Service that does not contain toxic chemical additives known as Nonylphenol Ethoxylates (NPEs) and petroleum distillate oils. Environmental organizations have called upon the U.S. Forest Service to ban the use of other firefighting chemicals that contain NPEs.
Barricade International President, John Bill praised the Forest Service for approving his new environmentally friendly fire gel saying "Now firefighters can use Barricade Gel to save more homes from destruction and to bring wildfires under control more quickly and safely."
Battalion Chief Eric Petersen, of the Canyon Volunteer Fire Department cites, "It's an excellent product. Once you properly apply it on a structure, it will not burn," Petersen said. "You can put it on hours before a fire and leave it. It's environmentally friendly and can be washed off with water."
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