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RAB910

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3. I am generally not a huge fan of fire fighters, but in this case I can see they are in the right

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Sat Sep 24, 2022, 07:32 AM

Sep 2022

Based on what I was seeing on the video, at least parts of the roof collapsed. That means broken sprinkler pipes. No doubt they shut down the sprinklers after that to increase water pressure and volume available to the firefighters. Sprinklers are intended to suppress a blaze, it's surprising that a fully sprinkled facility would get that bad in the first place.

As for the doors, with huge holes in the roof (that's how all that smoke is getting out) the doors would be meaningless.

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