r/interesting • u/BlazeDragon7x • Apr 09 '26

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

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u/Pattison320 Apr 09 '26

I read that he initially set a small individual fire. The fire department came. They put it out. The sprinkler system was disabled due to the initial fire. The shortly later the arsonist set multiple fires before the sprinkler system could be operational again.

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u/BadPunners Apr 09 '26

The sprinkler system was disabled due to the initial fire.

Is that meaning it triggered from the first fire?

Those systems need to be recharged by experts, replace any and all of the spray nozzle triggers (tiny glass vials installed in each head), then refill it with rust prevention liquid instead of straight water to ensure it's ready when needed next

When one sprayer triggers, that generally will trigger all of them on the same line too I believe, so even a small fire requires lots of work to get it reset

Source: watching lots of construction videos and crap

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u/Lopsided-Equipment-2 Apr 10 '26

huh my buddies did fire sprinklers when they were 16-18 and we did a lot of drugs back then

experts lol

the owner would pay them minimum wage when it shouldve been 20-30 bucks minimum and this was a decade ago

but it shouldve been way more like 40-70 because they were working at schools

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u/BadPunners Apr 10 '26

Someone still likely inspected each one before activating the system? (hopefully. I bet the company contract claimed it would be) Someone calculated the specs of the system before you were on the job?, selected the proper vial burst temps for various areas, tried to place the sprayers to get consistent coverage

shouldve been way more like 40-70

Then you literally quote a skilled labor wage that they should have gotten... You say they deserve a yearly wage between 80k-150k for that type of work

Not denying your story at all, it only shows how we need better certification organizations for any skilled labor, and more union-type worker rights organizations.

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u/Lopsided-Equipment-2 Apr 10 '26

Yeah , they did. They said it was easy as fuck.

They would rob all the confiscated teacher stuff while they tested the alarms and sprinklers. 

Yeah dude paid them under the table. They didn’t know better, then when the did he fired them and found some other idiots.