Masons donate new fire suppression tool to GCFD

The Menomonie number 164 Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Wisconsin presented the Glenwood City Fire Department with a state-of-the-art GreenPort Portable Fire Suppression tool. The new tool was presented to Glenwood City Fire Chief Greg Holden during a presentation at the fire station on Tuesday, March 28. A dozen members of the Menomonie Lodge were on hand for the presentation.

These small devices fit in the trunk of squad cars and other first responder vehicles and into a small space in a fire vehicle.

The unit can dramatically reduce fire and water damage in homes, garages, stores or sheds. It is lightweight and easy to deploy: “just pull the pins and throw it in to the fire,” and within 35 seconds, the fire is suppressed and the temperature inside the enclosure drops over 1000 degrees, making it a safe environment to extract trapped citizens or firefighters.

These devices will help save lives, and the Menomonie 164 Masonic Lodge is proud to donate this unit to help make our communities a safer place.

Menomonie Free and Accepted Masons made a presentation of a new Fire Suppression devise to the Glenwood City Fire Department. From left to right in the above photo are members of the Masons; Gary Stang, Bryce Fransway, Jacob McNabb, chief Holden, making the presentation is Jon Scott, Kyle Howard, Craig Conklin, Darryl Dahl and Jon Oakland. Kneeing in from are; Bill Tice, Ryan Husby, Lee Kegan and Donny Heit.  —photo by Carlton DeWitt