EditorialFire Strikes and This Pumper Rebuilds to Prosper Again

Fire Strikes and This Pumper Rebuilds to Prosper Again

Clean Delaware returns stronger than ever after a devastating fire takes out its vacuum trucks, restroom inventory and facilities.
  • Appeared in print as "Rising From the Ashes"
  • By Peter Kenter
  • March 2017
  • Cover Story
Fire Strikes and This Pumper Rebuilds to Prosper Again
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Fire Strikes and This Pumper Rebuilds to Prosper Again
The crew of Clean Delaware gathers at the company headquarters for a photo. Its trucks and treatment plant were replaced after a devastating fire in January 2015. (Photos by Doug Curran)

Gerry Desmond recalls exactly where he left a shipment of decals designated for portable restrooms the night of a fire that ravaged the premises of Clean Delaware in Milton, Delaware.

“We’d received enough decals to cover 100 portable restrooms,” says Desmond, the company’s...

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