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Blackmer® Pumps and Compressors Play Prominent Role
In Michigan’s Propane Emergency Response Network
The LPG industry has been a
key focus for Blackmer® over
the years, so when an
opportunity arose for the
company to support an effort
that would enhance the safety
of the industry, Blackmer
jumped at the chance. The
Propane Emergency
Response Network (PERN) is
designed to provide quicker
response times to emergency
propane-related incidents. It was developed by the Michigan
Propane Gas Association (MPGA) with the assistance of long-time
Blackmer distributor Industrial Propane Service (IPS).
PERN will be supported by a specific 1-800 phone number that
will be monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The 1-800
number service will have the names and contact numbers of each
team’s deployment officer on duty. In the event of a propane
emergency, first-responders to the incident will call the
emergency number. The monitor network will then select the
area team to handle the emergency and in turn contact that
team’s deployment officer, who will respond to the
first-responder at the incident site and then evaluate the site’s
emergency-response needs. A PERN team would be on site
within one hour, or less, of the initial call.
PERN is the brainchild of Robert
Vandemark, the second of three
generations of Vandemarks to own IPS.
Recently retired, Vandemark has
worked closely with the new owners of
IPS—his three children, Rob and Jeff
Vandemark and Kim Godlewski—and
the MPGA to make PERN a reality.
“Blackmer is pleased to be an
equipment provider for this program
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equipment provider for this program
and has also committed to offering
pump and compressor equipment
training at schools organized and
conducted by the MPGA,” said Glenn Webb, Blackmer Senior
Product Specialist, Compressors. “Hopefully, the propane-gas
associations in other states will see what the MPGA has done and
adopt similar programs for their own states.”
For more information on Blackmer’s pump and compressor
offerings for the LPG market , please visit us at www.blackmer.com
www.blackmer.com .
We welcome your feedback and hope you find this information
useful.
Respectfully,
Thomas L. Stone
Director of Marketing
stone@blackmer.com
Blackmer
1809 Century Avenue SW
Grand Rapids, MI 49503-1530
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