BIG in Action Archive - BIG Fire & Ventilation

Container fire spreads smoke to shopping center. 2 MGV in operation

A container caught fire at the loading ramp of a shopping center in Abensberg. Since the smoke had already spread into the shopping center according to the emergency services, the fire departments from Kelheim and Bad Abbach were called in for support with their mobile grand ventilators.

Machine fire fills production hall with smoke

A sandblasting unit started to burn in a production hall in Gladbeck. The actual fire was quickly brought under control. It was somewhat more difficult to remove smoke from the building – which was approx. 150 x 150 m in size.

Major fire in recycling plant

For two days firefighters fought down a fire in a recycling plant in Rheindahlen. To extinguish flaring up hot spots, the warehouse was completely flooded with foam using the FlexiFoam-system via two turntable ladders. Newspaper report and picture gallery

Mobile Grand Ventilator used to shield off neighborhood

120 firefighters fought in Rüfenacht (Switzerland) against a fire in an old Guesthouse. For hours the flames shot out of the attic of the building and the fully involved stable. Adjacent buildings were massively threatened by heat radiation and flying sparks. Also a mobile grand ventilator MGV L125 of the professional fire brigade Bern was […]

Major fire in basement of an industrial building

Major fire in a basement of a large industrial building in Heidenheim. The fire is located in the middle of a 2,000 square meter basement room. Only the use of a Mobile Grand Ventilator makes an effective interior attack possible. In the affected cellar prevailed, according to the fire department, temperatures of up to 800 […]

Massive apartment fire with heavy smoke development

Successful use of the portable smoke blocker in an apartment fire on the first floor.

Underground garage fire – 3 cars fully involved

Heavy smoke is coming out of the entrance and exit of the underground car park. Forces from Gerlingen and Ditzingen had begun with an interior fire attack under zero visibility until the arrival of forces from Bietigheim-Bissingen with their Mobile Grand Ventilator. At this time, due to the heavy smoke development, there was no possibility […]

Smoldering fire in electronic market

An electronics store in Neu-Ulm had to be evacuated due to a smoldering fire. The fast and successful ventilation with a Mobile Grand Ventilator MGV L125 made it possible to reopen the market after just one hour. Small cause with great effect: in a television there had been a short circuit, whereupon several customers complained […]