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woodsprite

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1. My dad worked for National Foam Systems (a fire protection
Sat Jan 18, 2025, 08:58 AM
Jan 2025

Company that engineered sprinklers, dispersion systems, and associated fire fighting apparatus for ships, oil companies,and airports/hangars). It’s now Chubb National. When the family-owned company sold out to Chubb, the bigwigs divided the pension fund up between themselves, effectively screwing all their “worker bees” out of their retirement savings.

Dad was an engineer that sales people would call when their clients had questions and requested the products be “demoed” the products for the clients, including the fact that you could smother a fire with that foam then walk immediately into the room filled with it and breathe normally. Sometimes he’d board a ship, set it on fire, and prove the fire extinguishing systems worked.

He retired and passed away within a year from multiple myeloma and leukemia after 38 years at the company. I often wondered if the work environment contributed to his diagnoses.

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