A 29-year-old employee was arrested on suspicion of arson. The warehouse was filled with paper products like Kleenex and Huggies diapers, further fueling the blaze.
Sounds like their suppression system was seriously undersized. I’d guess it was sized for regulation compliance rather than for what is actually needed for a warehouse filled with paper products.
That actually makes much more sense than the “when the roof collapsed” nonsense, bcs a proper sprinkler system should have kept the roof from collapsing
The news always fails to mention that this kind of stuff is knowable. The engineers that sized the fire suppression system knew with some degree of precision how much heat the company’s paper products generate when ignited. The system should have been sized for significantly more than that, specifically so a fire can’t get out of control and destroy the entire warehouse.
The fact the roof collapsed stinks of cost cutting. Or maybe something just failed?. We’ll probably never get that kind of detail.
Sounds like their suppression system was seriously undersized. I’d guess it was sized for regulation compliance rather than for what is actually needed for a warehouse filled with paper products.
That actually makes much more sense than the “when the roof collapsed” nonsense, bcs a proper sprinkler system should have kept the roof from collapsing
The news always fails to mention that this kind of stuff is knowable. The engineers that sized the fire suppression system knew with some degree of precision how much heat the company’s paper products generate when ignited. The system should have been sized for significantly more than that, specifically so a fire can’t get out of control and destroy the entire warehouse.
The fact the roof collapsed stinks of cost cutting. Or maybe something just failed?. We’ll probably never get that kind of detail.