Please, no fireworks in our self-storage and mini storage units in Toronto, North York, Etobicoke and Brampton
Our Self Storage and Mini Storage Units in Toronto, North York, Etobicoke and Brampton are suited to store nearly everything—except fireworks.
We don’t allow our self-storage clients to keep anything highly flammable or explosive in their lockers. And fireworks certainly qualify as explosive. We take safely very seriously.
Even though it’s strictly prohibited (and a terribly unsafe idea) in most self-storage facilities around the world, it seems some people still store fireworks in a locker.
In fact, investigators in Kent, England, recently seized 23 boxes of fireworks that were being sold illegally from a self-storage unit.
“To picture that amount of explosive, that’s two wholesale-size sacks of potatoes of pure gunpowder; which would make a fairly significant explosion,” said Trading Standards manager Mark Rolfe.
“The storage conditions were totally unsafe with standard electrical fittings running above the fireworks. The expert advice we have been given is that one spark from a failing fluorescent tube could have destroyed the building.”
That’s an extreme example, but it still illustrates how dangerous keeping fireworks in a storage locker can be. It’s a bad idea that puts the contents of everyone else’s lockers at risk, as well as your own.
If you have any questions about any of your self-storage needs, please contact us any time.
