USE CAUTION: Giant Fire at Walmart Distro Center in Plainfield

[BigRed]

All of our west Indy/Hendricks county peeps, use caution out by the Walmart distribution center, it's on FIIIIIIRE!

Firefighters turned off part of sprinkler system at Plainfield Walmart fulfillment center

Plainfield Fire Department Chief Brent Anderson said the fire suppression system at the facility was working correctly at the time firefighters arrived.

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I'm not a very smart man, but risers on and sprinklers on seems smart lest magnesium and such.
-Forrest Gump

 

[Cameramonkey]

I'm not a very smart man, but risers on and sprinklers on seems smart lest magnesium and such.
-Forrest Gump

You are correct. Because you speak of what you dont understand.

I know guys that were there. By the time the decision was made to temporarily turn off the system because crews were inside TRYING to fight the fire, the fire was already ABOVE the sprinkler heads.(they just didnt realize it yet) There was a crew on the roof prepping to cut vents. Less than 2 minutes after the pumps were shut off, fire was THROUGH the roof per the crew on the roof. That means the fire was above the sprinklers and in the foam before they were shut off. Because it takes more than 3 minutes for it to burn through that much foam and rubber.

So even if the sprinklers were left on, it wouldnt have mattered. Fire was still raging out of reach of the sprinkler heads, racing across the roof.

I wont go into the reasons why they shut it off, because I only have a basic understanding of why. I wont talk out my a** and armchair quarterback.

 

[BigRed]

You are correct. Because you speak of what you dont understand.

I know guys that were there. By the time the decision was made to temporarily turn off the system because crews were inside TRYING to fight the fire, the fire was already ABOVE the sprinkler heads.(they just didnt realize it yet) There was a crew on the roof prepping to cut vents. Less than 2 minutes after the pumps were shut off, fire was THROUGH the roof per the crew on the roof. That means the fire was above the sprinklers and in the foam before they were shut off. Because it takes more than 3 minutes for it to burn through that much foam and rubber.

So even if the sprinklers were left on, it wouldnt have mattered. Fire was still raging out of reach of the sprinkler heads, racing across the roof.

I wont go into the reasons why they shut it off, because I only have a basic understanding of why. I wont talk out my a** and armchair quarterback.

Picking on ol' Forrest Gump.

 

[Cameramonkey]

And based on my conversations with multiple FFs, expect the building design to be a key factor in this fire. There were multiple mezzanine levels that hindered both the sprinklers and firefighting efforts. It was brought up as a concern by fire inspectors during inspections when they were being built. Looks like they were right after all.

 

[bwframe]

Walmart blames dozens of Indiana fire departments in handling of warehouse fire, making damage worse

The tort claim is for property loss and damages from the March 16 warehouse fire.

www.wthr.com

 

[rhamersley]

Walmart blames dozens of Indiana fire departments in handling of warehouse fire, making damage worse

The tort claim is for property loss and damages from the March 16 warehouse fire.

www.wthr.com

Amazing we still have no final (or even preliminary) indication of what started the fire 6 months later.

 

[Denny347]

Walmart blames dozens of Indiana fire departments in handling of warehouse fire, making damage worse

The tort claim is for property loss and damages from the March 16 warehouse fire.

www.wthr.com

Welcome to my world.

 

[hoosierdoc]

Welcome to my world.

Time to lower their property taxes and not offer fire or EMS services.

I feel the same way in the ER some days.

 

[KellyinAvon]

Walmart blames dozens of Indiana fire departments in handling of warehouse fire, making damage worse

The tort claim is for property loss and damages from the March 16 warehouse fire.

www.wthr.com

Let me see if I've got this straight, the people who show up to put the wet stuff on the hot stuff... are at fault... and the system you had in your building to put the wet stuff on the hot stuff was disabled. Am I tracking this right??

 

[KellyinAvon]

In other news, the burned facility is nearly cleaned up now. The road is still tore up all to hell at Ronald Reagan and 100S just east of there, but that's a whole other thread.

 

[bwframe]

It's just that easy...

 

[WebSnyper]

Time to lower their property taxes and not offer fire or EMS services.

I feel the same way in the ER some days.

Or just not offer the services without any lowering of taxes, or some agreement put in place to to remove any liability of responding emergency services.

 

[rhamersley]

In other news, the burned facility is nearly cleaned up now. The road is still tore up all to hell at Ronald Reagan and 100S just east of there, but that's a whole other thread.

And as of today just try to turn right onto 100s from southbound Reagan. They’ve made it darn near impossible.

Edited to correct direction

 

[KellyinAvon]

It's just that easy...

AAAAHHH!! You have invoked, "HE WHOSE NAME SHALL NOT BE SPOKEN!!" That son of a **** sued my Dad over an accident where his client blew through a stop sign and got a passenger in the car killed just north of Bloomington at the now closed BP Station south of the Oliver Winery.

They DIDN'T get "money for you" in that one. Eat **** and die "HE WHOSE NAME SHALL NOT BE SPOKEN!!"

Rant over....

 

[Frosty]

And as of today just try to turn right onto 100s from southbound Reagan. They’ve made it darn near impossible.

Edited to correct direction

I thought there were no turns onto 100 south from either direction? I could have read the signs wrong, I was trying to “merge” in other words trying to get assholes to give me room to put my big truck in “their” lane

 

[Frosty]

Let me see if I've got this straight, the people who show up to put the wet stuff on the hot stuff... are at fault... and the system you had in your building to put the wet stuff on the hot stuff was disabled. Am I tracking this right??

The way I read it was the plainfield fire department shut down the riser to the sprinkler system, I’d be interested in hearing the fire department’s side of this.

 

[rhamersley]

I thought there were no turns onto 100 south from either direction? I could have read the signs wrong, I was trying to “merge” in other words trying to get assholes to give me room to put my big truck in “their” lane

They switched the lanes of 100s to the ones they just redid and closed the ones that have been used. You can turn right, but the barriers are set up that you have to get into the eastbound lane partially to turn west.

 

[Frosty]

They switched the lanes of 100s to the ones they just redid and closed the ones that have been used. You can turn right, but the barriers are set up that you have to get into the eastbound lane partially to turn west.

That makes sense, in an Indiana road construction kind of way!

 

[rhamersley]

That makes sense, in an Indiana road construction kind of way!

They do still have 100S closed going east at Reagan towards Raceway. Have yet to see anyone doing any work in that particular area when I pass by, but it’s been closed at least a month.

 

[KellyinAvon]

They switched the lanes of 100s to the ones they just redid and closed the ones that have been used. You can turn right, but the barriers are set up that you have to get into the eastbound lane partially to turn west.

They just did that today. It's a whole new level of suck at that intersection.