fire extinguisher

With the holiday season quickly approaching, our home kitchens and electrical systems are busier than ever.  Before hosting relatives in your home, take a few minutes to double check your fire safety equipment and prepare a family evacuation plan.   

In this episode, we're exploring the ins and outs of fire safety to keep your loved ones and property safe.  Our special guest, Chicagoland firefighter Pat Schlueter joins us to discuss some all too common fire hazards to avoid when cooking and decorating for the holidays.

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Fire extinguishers save countless lives every year. In today's episode, we will cover some essential safety tips for handling fire extinguishers. 

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Episode Notes

TIMELINE:

Intro (:01)
Setting Up (1:09)
Drew Sets the Agenda for the Episode  (1:55)
Who is Hampshire Fire Protection?  (2:09)
Hampshire Fire History (2:16)
Starting in Sprinklers (3:20)
Purchasing and Integrating a Fire Extinguisher Company (3:48)
Purchasing and Integrating a Fire Alarm Company (3:03)
Jimmy Joins (4:08)
Different Divisions in a Family Owned Company (4:38)
One-Stop Shop... (5:14)
We Don't Clean Kitchen Hoods!  (6:08)
We Won't do your Taxes or Clean your Suits, either  (6:38)
We Only Want to Do What We Do Best (6:58)
From Larry Thibodeau and his Truck to 180 Employees in Various Divisions (7:12)
Before and After (8:29)
Higher Margin (9:00)
No Massive Risk (9:10)
Before Inspect Point, We used Paper and Homemade PDF forms (9:38)
PDF Forms Were A Pain in the A@@  (11:18)
We Had to do Something Better (12:24)
Tried to Do Their own Software (12:52)
Was Still in Development and Incorporated Hampshire Fire's Suggestions into the Software (13:28)
Inspect Point Respects the Voice of the Customer (13:48)
Inspect Point Became more Powerful in two years : Great Evolution! (14:18)
Amerex and Other Partnerships (12:20)
Viking (15:33)
Proposals for Deficiencies and Regular Service Work and Solely for All Sprinkler Service (16:01)
Inspect Point is Always Adding Great New Features (16:52)
Anything powerful has a Learning Curve, but it is worth it (17:03)
You can Make Inspect Point What you Want it to Be - Great Options (17:57)
Inspect Point Gives You Bay 10x's What you Put into It (17:55) 
Can Put information All over the Place! (19:31)
Primary Metric - Deficiency Quote Estimator, and it had more than Doubled the 1st year  (20:38)
In August, the Deficiency Estimator Reached Their Goal For the Year! (20:58)
With All the Info into Inspect Point you can track all these ROIs (21:53)
Inspect Point Has Connected all our Various Divisions (22:40)
Inspect Point Has Streamlined Our Ability to Get Quotes out & Service Work Done  (24:09) 
Everything in One Place (24:33)
Can Get All the Business on the Table (25:18)
What Feature Would Hampshire Fire Like Added? (26:37)
Balancing Adding Features With Overdoing it (29:53)
Inspect Point is Great at Voice of the Customer (31:08)
Customer Success and Tech Support People Are Enthusiastic and Patient (31:44)
Go Jennifer! (32:53)
How to Convey to the Industry How much Inspect Point can Transform Their Business (33:53)
Double Service Sales in One Year - Hampshire is the Second Company to say this (34:20)
Get  into the Nooks and Crannies (35:02)
After the First Year it Was Plug and Play (35:08)
We Do All Dry Trips this Summer (35:38)
Techs LOVE it (36:48)
Facebook Groups Give Great Feedback (37:08)
If its not Usable on the Ground, its not Usable (37:48)
A Professionally Made Program Makes everything Look Better  - Adds a Sense of Pride (38:08)
Psyched About Amerex (39:08)
With QR Codes, We sped up the Inspection Process of Fire Extinguishers From 5 minutes to 20 Seconds (40:54)
Wrap Up (41:08)
 

This cautionary tale is told with my wife’s permission. Back in 1983, when we first got together, she was going to surprise me with our first really nice meal ... oven-baked pork chops and the trimmings – yum! Things didn't go so well - but we laugh about it now.

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