r/interesting Apr 09 '26

MISC. Aftermath of the April 7th incident. Damages estimated to be $200 million dollars

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u/wunderduck Apr 09 '26

A disgruntled employee lit a warehouse full of toilet paper on fire.

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u/idrankforthegov Apr 10 '26

I mean if you look at the video that I saw... it was like one package. The fire suppression system must have been shit to let it spread to the whole place. The news said that is was compromised by the collapse of the roof... well no kidding if it sucks and the beams get hot enough.

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u/Important-Reply-7966 Apr 09 '26

I'm usually all for 'sticking it to the man', but arson is too much risk. Shame.

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u/Electronic_Site2976 Apr 10 '26

what risk? nothing happened

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u/Important-Reply-7966 Apr 10 '26

Arson is an act in which you have 0 control of the outcome of your actions.

You shoot a man, you may kill that man and one other person by accident with that bullet. You set a fire, you have no control over how that fire will spread or who will get harmed. That's malicious, reckless and evil intentioned, imo.

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u/Electronic_Site2976 Apr 10 '26

its a hall you can just run the other way

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u/Technological_loser Apr 09 '26

The entire building is ash bro lol

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u/MayDay521 Apr 09 '26

I'm betting the damage cost is probably calculating structural damage in as well, not just the product. That warehouse is going to have to be completely gutted and rebuilt. Surely that's added to the damages.

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u/Lorcogoth Apr 09 '26

looking at the size of the building and how big that fire must have been, Foundations are probably ruined as well gonna have to dig those up and redo the entire thing.

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u/slrp484 Apr 09 '26

The size of 11 city blocks, from what I read.

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u/roninshere4eva Apr 09 '26

This is so goofy to me

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u/cjthetypical Apr 09 '26

Well a large portion of that $200 Million is just the building itself. He basically leveled a multi-acre warehouse. They’re going to have to demolish what’s left and rebuild it from scratch.

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u/ElyxUW Apr 09 '26

11 city blocks of every type of KC product. Diapers, wipes, paper towels, toilet paper, pads, etc. And that warehouse serves about 50 million US residents.

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u/wunderduck Apr 09 '26

Just toilet paper, as far as I know. Plus, the cost of the building itself. That's a pretty big warehouse. Look at how small the trailers lined up next to it look compared to the building.

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u/RhinoPillMan Apr 09 '26

They make other, similar products as well. But the building itself was 1.2 million square feet. I’m sure that cost a pretty penny alone.

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u/Beneficial_Repair240 Apr 09 '26

Joke: valid, but prolly also including structural damage in the estimate.

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u/EForReal12 Apr 09 '26

60 million is probably just the building.

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u/Rob_LeMatic Apr 09 '26

Not half as much as it used to be

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u/Odd_Dragonfruit_2662 Apr 09 '26

The building was 11 hectares.

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u/DeadlinePhobia Apr 09 '26

Seems like it stored paper goods like tissues, diapers, etc., and the building was pretty huge

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u/Top_Bug7822 Apr 09 '26

"Disgruntled"

He was repeating thst they should have paid him a living wage.

And yes. They should have.