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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • The fire fighters turned them off because the sprinklers use a lot of water and not in a manner thats actually effective in fighting the fire, effectively giving the firefighters less water and pressure to do their work.

    Because of the way the system was designed, a single control covered the entire system, rather than be able to disable specific sections.

    The arson waited for the firefighters to arrive and combat the first fire and confirm they disabled the sprinklers (you can hear he has a radio in the video.) So while the firefighters were busy with the first, he started another series of fires elsewhere and by the time the responders realized there was more fire/arson still on the premises, it was too dangerous to enter than part of the building and were forced to just pull everyone back and attempt to contain the fire from the edges. But in a massive warehouse full of paper products, once a fire gets hot enough sprinklers aren’t that effective anymore.

    Not sure if this particular type of suppression system only used water from the mains or if it had reserve tanks to allow it run for a set amount of time before needing to be recharged. But the facility was massive so there is no possible way to run the entire system for extended periods just using water from the city.


  • There’s been a lot of background on this.

    Basically, the alleged arson planned this out meticulously and started a smaller fire that triggered the sprinklers and caused the firefighters to arrive. Standard procedure is to disable sprinklers if/when firefighters believe they have it under control.

    Meanwhile, otherwise of the complex then alleged arson started a bunch of other fires while then responders dealt with the initial distraction. By the time fire fighters released there was another fire deeper in the complex it was too late to combat it.







  • Don’t think everyone needs or should own a gun. But of course if you compare gun ownership to gun related deaths it’s generally going to be higher when more guns per capita are present. You can do the same thing with cars, lawn mowers, dogs and even vending machines. The more of a thing there is, of course there is going to be more deaths and injuries related to it.