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My son spotted the smoke. Winds of 40 mph were gusting in every direction. We raced home. By the time we pulled into the driveway, the flames were already licking the top of the hillside above our home.

I quickly broke out the Barricade, and I will tell you the truth, my hands were shaking. My fifteen year old son and I were able to get the gallon jugs attached to garden hoses and began to spray down the home. I started on the propane tank, while my son hit the side of the house nearest the flames. While I was spraying the tank, I heard two explosions in rapid succession to the west of us. One neighbor’s propane tank had blown and a car’s gasoline tank had exploded. Those two homes were lost to the flames.

It took about 30 minutes for the two of us to get the home covered. The Barricade coated all sides of the house, including the windows and the eaves. My son got our pets into the Jeep, which he drove to a safe location across the street.

Then the winds shifted. The flames came racing in, driven by 45 mph gusts. I attached three garden hoses together and went out into the brush that surrounds our house. It’s mainly sage brush and cheat grass, and the flames were moving fast.

Thick smoke made it hard to breath. I laid a line of Barricade down in a trench I had dug the previous year to divert rain and snow runoff away from the back of the house.

The winds continued to blow Image1and the fierce brush fire exploded down the hillside. When it reached the line of Barricade—it stopped cold! The winds fanned the flames to the west of us and over past the neighbors’ homes but the fire never made it past the Barricade gel I had laid down in the dried-out brush.

As much of the country was focused on the flooding in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and the devastation of her sister Rita, 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 grateful for the help she received from firefighters who decided to spray 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 very idea that it was going to be safe was incredibly important." After evacuating to a safe area, she was relieved to find no fire damage at all.

Any homeowners whose homes and precious belongings were saved from wildfire by Barricade Gel might agree with Ms. Pfizer, who concluded, "What an amazing, amazing thing!"

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.

He described how they gelled a propane tank with Barricade and "the flames were wrapping themselves all around the tank when the firestorm blew over." He termed it "a very impressive save".

Similar sentiments were expressed by Battalion Chief Eric Petersen, of the Canyon Volunteer Fire Department. "It's an excellent product. Once you put it on a structure, it will not burn if you apply it correctly," Petersen said. "You can put it on hours before a fire and leave it. This is really helpful for us. It's environmentally friendly and can be washed off with water."

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.

Captain Gorden Sabo and his crew of the Rockerville Fire Department, located in the Black Hills of South Dakota, were assigned to a structural protection task force while working the Battle Creek Fire. The 13,200-acre fire was raging out of control on August 17, 2002 and was threatening many homes.

Fortunately for homeowners, the State of South Dakota had recently purchased Barricade Fire Blocking Gel for every fire department in the Black Hills region.

Captain Sabo was in command of a brush truck equipped with the Barricade QuikAtak™ system. With the raging fire bearing down, Captain Sabo and his crew applied Barricade to the threatened homes.

The crew coated six homes before they exhausted their supply of Barricade Gel and had to leave the area for their own safety.

When the fire had passed, they returned to the area and discovered that every home they "Barricaded" was still standing, undamaged from the fire. The one home they were unable to coat and all of the outbuildings around the homes, which also were not coated, had burned to the ground.

On a statewide basis, the State of South Dakota is the first governmental agency that has implemented the use of Barricade Gel technology to save homes, lives and property. Their progressive approach in preparing for devastating wildfires paid off the very first time they used Barricade.

With extraordinary results such as these, it is clearly an advantage to include Barricade as standard equipment in all fire departments.


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