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AeroTech public statement regarding facility fire |
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2001 Archived News by AeroTech
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Wednesday, October 17, 2001 |
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LAS VEGAS, Nevada USA -- Early afternoon on October 15th, we at AeroTech experienced a fire at our main facility. At this time the cause is not known and remains under investigation.
AeroTech Inc. is cooperating fully with all state, federal and local agencies in their investigation into the causes of this tragic event. As you know, our operations have set an example for safety in the past and we hope that, through this unfortunate incident, we can learn how to make our operations even safer in the future.
This incident has resulted in injuries to several employees, three of whom remain in the care of hospital staff here in Las Vegas.
Our thoughts and prayers are focused on the welfare of these men, and their loved ones, who are an integral part of the entire AeroTech family. We would ask that you would also place them in your thoughts and prayers.
In response to the questions about AeroTech's future, we can note that our kit facility was not involved in the incident and we anticipate that we will be able to resume shipment of kits and kit parts in the very near future.
We would like to assure our customers that we have recovered the information needed to restore motor and hardware production and are working now on the best way to achieve this goal.
As the first step towards accomplishing these goals we are in process of reestablishing our administrative offices at our kit facility. Arrangements have been made to have any correspondence forwarded to us there. As communication channels are established we will post the information on our web site and we will be contacting our customers individually as the week progresses.
Although we are not yet able to specify a schedule for our recovery we will, however, remain in close contact with our customers and the rocketry community at large as planning proceeds.
AeroTech sincerely thanks the many people who have offered their assistance and, in particular, acknowledge and appreciate the intent to establish a fund to assist the AeroTech employees who have been impacted by Monday's fire. This generous gesture was communicated to us yesterday by Brent McNeely, publisher of Extreme Rocketry magazine, who has volunteered to coordinate this effort.
Thank you so very much for your concerns and expression of commitment to AeroTech. We will be here to celebrate our 20th anniversary next year and we invite you to share it with us.
Sincerely,
The Staff and Employees of AeroTech, Inc.
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