The Inrecon team:
Mark and Randy
Fenton, and
Donald Sak.
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AARON ROBINSON
SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
date. Randy Fenton's 13-
year-old son was born on
the eve of the devastating
Kalamazoo tornado in
1980. Their mother's 70th
birthday party coincided
with a hurricane that
slammed into Puerto Rico
in 1989.
And their parents' gold-
en wedding anniversary on
Aug. 23, 1992, marked the
night that Hurricane
Andrew, the worst storm
in U.S. history, laid waste
to southern Florida.
Photo by Marsha Sundq
Not even
a hurricane
can keep
the Fenton
brothers away
from work.
ad the Fenton brothers
been around, the
Pharaoh might have
hired them to clean up
Egypt after the Ten
Plagues. The duo —
Mark Fenton, 44, and
Randy Fenton, 40 —
have made disaster a
family business.
Their
company,
Dearborn-based Quality
Construction/Insurance
Reconstruction (Inrecon),
prospers from fixing busi-
nesses and homes that
have burned, flooded or
even blown away in a tor-
nado or hurricane.
"The whole concept is to
provide services to insur-
ance companies nation-
wide and large building or
property owners who are
in need of high-speed con-
struction and restoration
after disasters," says
Randy Fenton, the firm's
president and CEO.
The Fentons and part-
ner Don Sak started with
a small awning business
begun in 1946 by their
fathers, Sam Fenton and
Bill Sak. They say they
live, breathe and eat their
work. But it's all in the
family. Three of Sam
Fenton's sons work in the
business, and many
employees are relatives.
They even remember
family milestones by what
cataclysm occurred on that
Sam Fenton gave his
sons business roots; yet it
was the second generation
who turned the business
into a multi-million dollar
venture.
Since 1959, the 300-
employee company with
offices in six cities has spe-
cialized in cleaning up
property that has been
ravaged by tragedy. ,
These days, the after-
math of Hurricane Andrew
is keeping the company
busy as ever. The Fentons
have spent weeks, even
months, at the scenes of
disasters; supervising the
company's rebuilding pro-
jects.
But Andrew is the
worst catastrophe in the
history of the Fentons'
business, and the duo esti-
mates it will give them at
least another two years'
work.
When Andrew came
ashore, the Fentons were
instantly on the move.
"We call it war, and you
are looking at the gener-
als," says Randy Fenton,
corporate chief financial
officer.
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