Saint Paul Public Housing and Saint Paul Fire Department Award Ceremony

April 30

, 2013

Saint Paul Public Housing Agency to be Commended, Fire Chief to Recognize 20 Year Fire Sprinkler Program

Fire Marshal Steve Zaccard

Saint Paul Fire Chief Tim Butler will commend twenty three employees of the Saint Paul Public Housing Agency

(PHA) for their roles in completing a massive two decades long program for fitting all of the PHA’s sixteen highrise apartment buildings with fire sprinklers.Fires in high rise buildings pose extreme hazards to firefighters and are very time consuming and labor intensive to fight. Fire sprinklers, on the other hand, have an excellent record of keeping fires in check 95% of the time until firefighters can arrive 96% Fire sprinklers reduce property damage 71% and provide occupants an 80% greater chance of surviving a fire than with just smoke detectors, alone. Nationally, 85% of fire

 deaths occur in residential occupancies. In Saint Paul that number increases to 100%.

 Fire sprinklers have been required by the state building code in new high rise buildings since 1972, but they’re not retroactive. Fire sprinklers were not required in the PHA high rise buildings back when they were first built , but

Executive Direction Jon Gutzmann and his staff set out in 1991 to voluntarily fit all sixteen of their high rise

apartment buildings with fire sprinklers to protect their residents a task worthy of recognition by the Fire Chief.

The project took more than twenty years to complete because funding needed by the PHA withered during the

recession.

Community Service Awards

Saint Paul Fire Chief Tim Butler

PHA Executive Director Jon Gutzmann

PHA Board chair Tom Reding

PHA Maintenance Director Hank Petro

PHA President’s Council Member

Connie Lydon

Wednesday, May 1, 2013, 9:30 a.m.

STPH fire award May 1st 2013

Photos by Andrews-Photography.com

Rod Andrew Wilson
Owner/ Photographer
http://www.Andrews-Photography.com
2668 Brand Ave East
Maplewood MN 55119651-292-9242Rod@andrews-photography.com

Twin Cities Wedding Photographer of the year 2009,2010,

My business continues to grow by referrals from friends, family and customers like you!

Thank you for recommending me!

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Commercial Photographs of Shower Stall in Historical Grand Ave Apartments

We received some kind words from a past client on our commercial photography. The location was Grand Ave in Saint Paul a unique and timeless apartment. Not much space to document a shower stall and tile work but I have been in smaller units so this was not a challenge.

Noah Lamont , Lamont’s Woodbury Glass

Noah Lamont posted on Andrews-Photography, Twin Cities’s timeline

“I create and install extreme high end shower enclosures. I have tried for years to take photos of my work that present my products in both space and presence. Never satisfied with my results. Recently I had a customer that had us create enclosures for several baths in a architecturally significant building in St, Paul.OH MY ! Can Rod make my glass look good ! How you can get clear glass to show like that….. Well I guess that is what you get when you hire a man at the top of the game.Will always call Rod to shoot my work from now on. Worth every penny!Noah Lamont Woodbury Glass ” – in Saint Paul.

Lamont Glass does exception work and we were just glad to be a part of their finished project. The nice thing about these kinds of jobs is if you can get the builder, tiler and interior designer to help split the bill for the images created. Talk about a win win for all parties involved.

Rod Andrew Wilson
Owner/ Photographer
www.Andrews-Photography.com
2668 Brand Ave East
Maplewood MN 55119

651-292-9242

Rod

Twin Cities Wedding Photographer of the year 2009,2010,

My business continues to grow by referrals from friends, family and customers like you!

Thank you for recommending me!

Become a fan on my face book page,http://www.facebook.com/pages/Maplewood-MN/Andrews-Photography-Twin-Cities/75586979081?v=wall

LamontGlass.com
651-755-3000
Noah Lamont’s Woodbury Glass
1890 Wooddale Drive #500
Woodbury MN 55125