Tragedy Strikes Business Owner

I got a call from one of our really great friend and someone who'd been with our company for a while, Jeff Dean. And he told me that my partner Butch, had been burned in a fire. Jeff and Butch and some other guys were working at one of our facilities a couple of miles from home. And they were basically redoing the plant. Richard this was a plant that was processing wastewater there. And so we had an antiquated process in which made a mistake. He went inside of a tank that he thought was empty and clean, and it was marked empty and clean. But he went in the tank with his torch. He fired up his torch. He cut into a pipe that was in the way of what he wanted to do. There was material left in that pipe. That material ignited, and essentially the flame went up the pipe. It hit the ceiling, bounced off, kind of bounced off the ceiling and, you know, around the exterior of the tank. And the tank was basically heating up like an oven with him inside of it.