SHOP FIRE :HAWK MARINE/Kevin's Machine &Engineering
 

fire in shop,started in hyd. hose dept, took out every thing in shop....... I am completely shut down

Sorry to hear about the fire that totally destroyed your business.

Extremely sorry to hear, hopefully you can get back in business soon...

Everyone ok ?

did the store also catch fire?

Kevin, sorry to hear of your misfortune. Best of luck on getting you operation back up and going. Joe Murray

no, it happened on a saturday , shop was closed. one of my counterman did make a hose at 9:30am, smoke started at 1:30.you could amagine what 1,000 foot of hyd. and return hose on fire ,,,alot of smoke. and the corrosion was unbelievable, looked like I sprayed all the equipment with salt water

no one gut hurt,and got all the customers out of the Hardware store . no damage to it ,wow the firewalls really work

well,just my machine shop and engine building bussiness

Really sorry to hear about this hope you get back up and running soon.

Sorry to hear about the fire

we had pretty good coverage,so get ready for twice the sq. footage and state of the art machine shop including CNC plasma,lathe,machine center

I will try yo post some pics

Sounds like it may have been convenient.:cool:

Sorry for your loss. What don't kill you only makes you stronger........ rebuild it twice as good. Good luck.

Be careful what you say. Insurance companies do not like to pay for fires. Insurance companies will, if have not already, send out a number of investigator to find cause of fire. Even if fire department found cause insurance company may not agree with that cause. Next they will do a full investigation on you. They will spend many $$$ checking you and your employees out. The trama of a fire is great. Glad no one was hurt. If you have not done so start doing a complete inventory of everthing that burned up. Make a complete list of everthing. Do not do a bulk guess, on items, it will cost you. Consider anything with an circuit board history. It maybe working now but in a few months when it dies the insurance company will, may not pay for it then.

I don't know if they have the same owners today that they had 9 years ago but they wasn't honest then. Was suppose to be a new block and new internals but the block had two sleeves and the internals was not new. Was promised 700 hp and they dynoed it at 613. Hopefully not the same today but if so maybe this is justice.

Fires are never convenient, they are extremely destructive and will disrupt your business and threaten ones ability to make a living...

Hopefully they will be able to move forward and rebuild but it's not going to be a bed of roses in any case...

I would applaud them for their positive outlook, after all what's "done is done" as far as the fire is concerned....

BEWARE of the words ACTUAL CASH VALUE!!! that is insurance talk for what you had ain't worth chit. I would hire a lawyer now, insurance company's make lots of money because they don't pay if they can get out of it.

NOT the same owner! Kevin has earned a good reputation.

I wish him the best then and I am sorry for the misunderstanding

Kevin sorry hear that, my company does fire and water damage restoration in St louis, please fell free to call me with any insurance related questions

www.paragonstl.com

randy wild
314-420-2619

we were planning to re-model anyway, but never would i wish this on anyone,probably not worth it in the end

ins.sent three investigators plus flew a fire engineer in ,couldnt find a source,,,,,also sent a equip.specialist in ,he said everything is gone write it all up.even the things that i thought were ok

not the same company, probably talking about Bud Laroe , Hawk of Miami Fort Apache

policy read replacement cost, but I trust no one, because you know they all say they are looking out for my best intrest

Hey Kevin .... what about the Dyno and equipment ?

dyno was in portable bld in back, rebuilt shop dyno will be inside,, all the rest of the equip. is gone

Kevin, when you cut Hydraulic hose it sometimes will leave a small bit of smoldering residue. In our shop we have a metal trash can that we use to knock out/blow out the cutting residue/dust. We have had to put it out a couple of times. We do not put any thing else in that can.

know exactly what your talking about, luckly we had a knife style cutter, did great as long as the right person is using it