DISASTER RECOVERY Our machines have been used for disaster clean up all over the world. • We are recommended by more governments and government agencies than any other machine manufacturer. • On site clean up after storms when mobility is most difficult. • On site destruction of diseased trees to prevent further spread of disease. • On site destruction of diseased animals. Four S-321& S-116 Units at Disaster Recovery Site Hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, fires and large-scale catastrophic animal disease occurrences cause multiple problems for the affected authorities. Their first order of concern and responsibility is to save lives and protect property, but immediately following are disaster recovery efforts. They are first aimed at re-instating basic services and the protection of the public health, and the second phase of recovery deals with debris clean up and infrastructure restoration and rebuilding. Air Burners systems have played important roles in both phases for many disasters that have struck during the last thirty years and are an integral part of many disaster recovery contingency planning on local, state and federal level, especially within hurricane/tornado and “homeland security” preparedness programs. Some Air Burners, LLC disaster recovery examples are: • All hurricane storm debris clean-up within the US in past thirty-five years • Foot-and-Mouth eradication schemes (carcass disposal) in the United Kingdom and CWD and Avian Flu in the US and Canada. • Ice storm tree debris disposal in the US • Tornado tree and structure debris clean-up in the US Air Burners, LLC air curtain incinerators or burners were designed to efficiently reduce wood waste material based on the air curtain burner principle. Their use in the land clearing & construction industries has long been established, and it is the first market served by Air Burners, LLC more than thirty years ago. The success in this area has evolved into their acceptance by the forest industry in general and the US Forest Service in particular for fuels (slash) reduction and for diseased tree disposal. Emergency management agencies have employed fleets of air curtain burners in support of hurricane disaster recovery efforts to dispose of combustible debris, especially in Florida and the Carolinas. The fact that the units are easily mobilized and set up for operation on site makes them so desirable. They can dispose of large quantities of waste in a short time at acceptably low emission rates, are cost efficient, long lasting, require little operator skill and can be operated continuously for more than a day or two. All factors that make their use very attractive for disaster clean-up work. The benefit of rapid combustion with little visible smoke at very high temperatures became apparent to government officials tasked with disposing of large amounts of animal carcasses from animals that had died from catastrophic diseases or natural disasters. The portability of the refractory walled S-Series introduced in 1990 by Air Burners, LLC makes it possible to deploy the fully assembled fire box rapidly to trouble spots.  Where practical, the trailer-mounted T-Series trench burner is being used as well for on-site cadaver disposal. The smaller S-111 firebox can be helicoptered to remote locations. Wood waste is required to support the combustion of cadavers. In the case of natural disasters, such as hurricanes and tornados, storm debris is collected to fuel the combustion of carcasses in the air curtain burner. This tends to take care of two problems at the same time. Where storm debris is not readily available, wood waste or even firewood must be secured for the carcass combustion process. In the wildland, forest slash slated for elimination by the forest services can be a practical source to support the combustion of diseased wild animals, such as elk and deer affected by Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). See Technical Memorandum:  Animal Carcass Burning in S-300 & S-200 Fireboxes There are times when waste disposal options include methods that offer a beneficial reuse. Chipping of wood waste may appear to be one such option, but within the realm of disaster recovery, usually proves to be an unproductive and costly endeavor.  Nothing is more desirable than to reduce the volume of the waste stream so significantly, that disposal of the residuals becomes a minor issue. Only on-site air curtain burner disposal offers that option with a mass reduction greater than 95-98% and a sterile residual ash that most of the time can be safely land applied solving the disposal objective once and for all without reliance on costly landfills. Air Burners, LLC systems are being used in all phases of disaster recovery and disaster contingency planning as can be summarized as follows, where the S-Series fire boxes are always the preferred systems with Air Burners T-Series trench burners being usually the second choice. A. Natural Disasters (Hurricanes, Ice Storms, Tornadoes, etc.) 1st Recovery Phase: a Support for emergency roadway, railroad, waterway and airport debris disposal (trees, limbs, demolition debris, etc.) b Support for disposal of perished animals (mostly farm animals) 2nd Recovery Phase: a Support for wood waste and demolition debris disposal at collection sites or landfills, public parks, urban wildland (forest) interface, river beds, lake shores, etc. b Support for wood waste (construction debris) disposal during re-building phase of infrastructure and buildings B. Catastrophic Animal Disease Outbreaks (BSE, FMD, CWD, etc.) (Naturally occurring or bio-terrorism induced) Bovine carcass disposal verification testing of an S-321 inside a huge BRE Government laboratory in the United Kingdom February 2002 a Animal carcass disposal on site (farms, ranches, wilderness, zoos) b Animal carcass disposal at central processing locations or rendering facilities (also handles routine farm mortalities)   More (FAQ) ...         ANIMAL CARCASS DISPOSAL LINKS 1 US Department of Homeland Security - FEMA:  Fire Boxes,  May 2004 http://www.nims-ics.com/resource_typing/Air Curtain Burners (Fire Box-Above Ground, Refractory Walled).htm US Department of Homeland Security - FEMA Trench Burners, May 2004 http://www.nimsonline.com/resource_typing/Air Curtain Burners (Trench Burner, In-Ground).htm 2 Animal Carcass Disposal - AgTerror Conference PowerPoint Presentation Email us for Password Air Burners, LLC Presentation to the AgTerror Instructors Conference, Tampa, FL, January 20, 2007 (Large File of 54mb with three embedded video clips) Avian Influenza Bird Carcass Disposal   (Hi-Res Version for better printing) Technical Memorandum by Air Burners, LLC Air Curtain Burners on the Disposal Carcasses of Culled Birds and Dead Wild Birds Affected by the Bird Flu Nov. 2007 Update Technical Memorandum:  Animal Carcass Burning in S-300 & S-200 Fireboxes 3 Video Clip (104 sec.) of Carcass Burning in S-200 Series Firebox (Florida Dept. of Agriculture)  in WMV (14.4 mb) Same Clip in MPG  (56.8 mb) 5 Our Standard Sales Literature 6 Technical Reports (Generally for Permitting Support for Our Air Curtain Burners) 7 Standard Product Specifications 8 Air Burners, LLC Home Page Top of Page Previous Page