It was a small fire.....

[bimmridder]

It was a small fire and more time cleaning up than anything. Certainly an eye opener. I'll write more later about today and future plans.

[screenprintguy]

Uh oh

[Frog]

Hopefully more of a wake-up call than an extended bout of insomnia.

[Underbase37]

Murphy

[TCT]

This is one situation I can say I hope the "small" fire was on your pants...

Seriously, hope all is well!

[GraphicDisorder]

Hmmm, no good sir. Hope it wasn't bad!

[jvanick]

also hope you were able to get it out without much use of dry fire extinguishers.. those things go EVERYWHERE.

[GKitson]

It was a small fire and more time cleaning up than anything. Certainly an eye opener. I'll write more later about today and future plans.

Need anything...you've got my phone number

[mooseman]

also hope you were able to get it out without much use of dry fire extinguishers.. those things go EVERYWHERE.

Yes they do.......
I had a small fire couple years ago isolated to one pallet with tee shirt under the flash, shop filled with smoke. I dumped a quick shot from a 5 pounder dry chemical the cleanup went on forever. Since then I installed  two smoke alarms immediately above the flash unit suspended down from the ceiling on PVC pipe.
They hang just above the height of a passing screen and thankfully they will go off at the slightest puff of smoke.
$3,000.00 fire $28.00 fix.
mooseman

[bimmridder]

It was very small luckily. We were moving a dryer and auto, and one electrical line shorted. It was at the junction box on the ceiling. It immediately ignited the lint we've been collecting on the purlons (?) or support beams, whatever they are called. Looked like a fuse running across. I had a fire extinguisher within five feet of me, and it was out within thirty seconds. I big mess but very little damage.

So immediately I am kicking myself in the ass for letting it get as bad as it has. We've all heard the stories. I just kept saying, "Man I need to do something about that", but never did. Tomorrow I start making calls to find someone to come in immediately to clean all of my ceiling. It's not reasonable to think I could do it myself and do it effectively. It also brings to the front of my mind that although we have emergency plans, does EVERY employee, including the 12 temp workers we have know all of the details of the plan? I can answer that, but I won't.

Other things that need my attention have sprung up from this little brush with potential disaster, but some will get my full attention immediately.

Don't be a Dave. See a problem? Fix it before it's too late.

[dirkdiggler]

did that in our old shop, it actually cleaned up all the lint off the rafters and then went out.  Lucky for us.

[3Deep]

dustbunnies will catch fire quick, had our clothes dryer in our home catch fire from lint build up, so hey everyone clean your lint tray in your home dryers after every dry cycle

[Zelko-4-EVA]

we had a similar issue.

you know how the instructions say "turn light fixture off before installing lamps"  - we missed that part.  we had the fluorescent fixture on and changed the bulbs.  there was a small spark and the lint caught - luckily it didnt spread.

we do lint cleanings every 6 months.  10' conduit with a 3/8 air hose inside.  nozzle on the other side and blow the lint off the ceiling.  we cover all the presses and the dryer belts to keep lint off.   it works well.

we also have a procedure to change light bulbs. 
 

[kingscreen]

Scary.  We had a similar moment a couple years ago when a short in the manual flash plug ignited the lint on the floor.  It spread out so fast and left such a huge puff of smoke that I thought a magician was going to appear.  Luckily, it was just a big puff and then it was out.  We now thoroughly clean our shop weekly.

[jsheridan]

"Man I need to do something about that", but never did. Tomorrow I start making calls to find someone to come in immediately to clean all of my ceiling.

shop vac and some thin wall PVC pipe with a minimum wage guy, should take 2 days depending on size.