Flextec Escapes Fire's Wrath
Colorado Springs-based Flextec survived the Waldo Canyon Fire, but not without several anxious days of watching and waiting.
A mandatory evacuation was sounded at 4 pm at Flextec and with very little time to prepare, the production operation went down. Rahija finished loading a truck with a customer order until 5:30 before fleeing the area.
The operation was curtailed for three days. During that time, the closest Rahija was able was to get to the facility was two hundred yards, but this was at least enough to see that it was still standing. The evacuation was finally lifted at 9 pm on Friday, June 29. Production operations began the next morning, Saturday, and continued through the next week including the July 4th holiday—all in the interest of keeping customer commitments.
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