Fire! Fire!
We take pride in our real-world product evaluations here at the bootLab. We don't hand products over to a bunch of lab-coat-wearing technicians; we use the products the same way you would. That's simply the best way to test the lofty claims that manufacturers often make for their products. Take the FireCooler, for instance. When we saw that this fire safe look remarkably like a plastic beer cooler, we resolved to put the product to an extreme test that would make Beavis proud.

We packed up the FireCooler with CD-ROMs, 3.5-inch floppies, and heat-sensitive 35 mm slides. We dropped the safe in a two-drawer metal file cabinet and dragged it into the parking lot. To simulate the condition of a fire in a wood-construction home, we arranged a dozen Duraflame logs around and beneath the cabinet, poured two gallons of gasoline over them, and lit a match. Observing the resulting conflagration we realized that our kitchen fire extinguisher wasn't going to cut it. We were relieved to see the fire truck roll up 30 minutes later. After the fire, the FireCooler had been reduced to a molten puddle. "Looks like your product failed the test," said one police officer. But the test wasn't over yet. When we removed the safe from the cabinet, we were surprised to discover that the CD-ROMs, floppy disks, and 35 mm slides had survived the fire without a scratch. This fire was intense. When we removed the file cabinet and the galvanized steel plate we had put down to protect the parking lot, we discovered that the heat had burned a hole right into the asphalt. We were stunned and amazed at a $598 plastic box could protect our media in the face of such punishment.
As Butthead would say: "Huh-huh. Huh-huh. That's cool!"

Media Protection Products
PO Box 632
Buffalo, New York 14215
716.838.0953
E-Mail albagubrath@FireCooler.com