LiveWire in the Press

January 23rd, 2008

LiveWire Supply Saves Vail Resort Vacation for Thousands by Restoring Power to its Main Chair Lift

When Circuit Breaker Fails, Live Wire Supply Rushes Replacement to Country's Leading Ski Resort

SAN FRANCISCO – January 23, 2008 – Live Wire Supply, the Internet's No. 1 electrical supply house, today announced it provided a critical circuit breaker to one of the country's leading ski resorts after its main lift suffered a failure. The breaker provided by Live Wire Supply, a Siemens 1600 amp, enabled the resort to quickly restore power to its main ski lift after it failed to work for thousands of paying resort guests.

Vacation was almost ruined for thousands of skiers and snowboarders at Vail Mountain Ski Resort in central Colorado. The circuit breaker powering the main chair lift chauffeuring guests up the resort's mountain suffered a failure and consequentially, several of the mountain's main lifts, accessed via the lift that suffered the failure, were inaccessible. Additionally, the timing couldn't have been worse. The resort has received near-record snowfall and was experiencing some of the best conditions in years.

The resort called on Live Wire Supply to act fast, replace the failed breaker and get the lift up and running. The on-call electrician contacted a resort purchasing agent, who in turn went to LiveWire Supply's Web site. The agent located the needed Siemens breaker and within minutes had placed the order.

"When an electrical failure is large enough to affect thousands of people, especially paying customers as in the case of Vail Mountain Ski Resort, moving quickly is the most important thing," said LiveWire Supply CEO Adam Messner. "As an online provider of electrical equipment, we are nimble enough to respond immediately to such requests and literally get the needed electrical part en route to the customer within minutes."