whoa….

 

For those of us that don't have Facebook perhaps you could give us a synopsis of the posting?

 

Powder Valley had a fire which destroyed their warehouse and inventory. Nobody hurt. For the full story, go to their website www.powdervalley.com

 

Dang. Hate to see that.

 

To our Powder Valley family,

We’re okay.

The calls you get at 3 a.m. are never the ones you want. Early Sunday morning, a fire tore through our primary warehouse and offices. It’s a devastating, total loss of the building and the inventory inside.

What matters most is that every member of the Powder Valley family is safe, and so are the first responders who showed up for us. We’re profoundly grateful.

This is a hard time. But this community scraps and fights and lifts each other up. We’re going to rally, rebuild, and come back stronger.

If you placed an order:

• Orders that already shipped will continue moving with tracking as normal.
• For orders not yet shipped, we’re auditing each one. If we can’t fulfill it, we will make it right — refund or an alternative you approve. Powder Valley will continue to do the right thing where our customers are concerned.

How to reach us:
Our phones are temporarily offline while we set up an interim solution. Please email reload@powdervalley.com. We’re answering as fast as we can — thank you for bearing with us during this time.

Many of you have asked how you can help. This community truly is special, and we appreciate everyone's concern and support. We have a limited selection of products that were stored at a different facility and are ready to ship now. If you’d like to support us during this time, you can shop from that selection here: Products available to ship now. We also have Digital Gift Cards — usable today on the shippable items or later when our full inventory returns: Gift cards here.

We welcome and appreciate continued prayers for our Powder Valley family as we navigate this difficult time.

We’ll keep our status page updated as we work through recovery and next steps. You can find that page linked here. Thank you for standing with us — today and in the days ahead.

With gratitude and resolve,
Bryan, Noel, and the Powder Valley Team

Support: reload@powdervalley.com
Ongoing status updates: Status & Recovery Updates

These images are from our beloved headquarters after the fire burned out:

 

There doesn't appear to be any sprinkler heads in the ceiling. Maybe those aren't required by the local fire ordinance for warehouses?

Good luck to Powder Valley as you recover!

 

I would think with such an inventory type, a halon system or similar would be the ticket

 

Dang. That sucks. I've had nothing but good luck when shopping with them. I hope they can recover and are back at it soon.

 

Always had great service from them .

 

You accomplish nothing trying to remove oxygen or apply Halon or other combustion suppressing gas to a gun powder fire. All gun powders contain all their oxidizing material right in the powder! Otherwise, a closed cartridge would not fire.

With BP, the oxidizer was potassium nitrate in the mixture. With smokelesss, the nitrate was added by nitrating the cellulose (or the glycerin) when the main components were manufactured.

Fighting a powder fire - one needs to wet down the entire area immediately to reduce the temperature below that at which more powder ignites. For a warehouse, that means a few tankers full of water or other coolant - added immediately. Just about impossible.

The conventional way to handle this is to keep many small bunkers (earth covered except the roof) with a small amount of powder stored in each. You may lose one, but you don't lose your entire stock.

good luck, garrisonjoe

 

You accomplish nothing trying to remove oxygen or apply Halon or other combustion suppressing gas to a gun powder fire. All gun powders contain all their oxidizing material right in the powder! Otherwise, a closed cartridge would not fire.

With BP, the oxidizer was potassium nitrate in the mixture. With smokeless, the nitrate was added by nitrating the cellulose (or the glycerin) when the main components were manufactured.

Fighting a powder fire - one needs to wet down the entire area immediately to reduce the temperature below that at which more powder ignites. For a warehouse, that means a few tankers full of water or other coolant - added immediately. Just about impossible.

The conventional way to handle this is to keep many small bunkers (earth covered except the roof) with a small amount of powder stored in each. You may lose one, but you don't lose your entire stock.

good luck, garrisonjoe

I agree you can't remove the oxygen. That's why I suggested a sprinkler system. Removing the heat is the only way to stop a powder fire.

I also think your idea for spreading storage to many smaller locations would minimize loss and make it easier to extinguish in case of a fire.