Indiana Walmart DC Fire

I saw one news report that said they don't have adequate water to fight it, and a fire department spokesman was calling on any or all available departments to help by bringing their tankers and pumpers to help.

I guess Walmart is taking a page out of the Flying Pilot playbook for renovations.

 

I wonder if they have any Crete/Shaffer drop trailers there. If they do, then we know where to find an empty around the Indy area...as long as they weren't damaged by the heat. There was a follow-up story from the residential area near there, one resident claimed they could feel the heat from the fire from their property.

 

How is a structure of this size, in the year 2022, not equipped with central fire suppression? There's no way they're putting that out with tankers and pumps. I mean, who would insure that without a sprinkler system?

 

They said it had one, but it was overwhelmed by the speed and intensity of the fire. It has mostly burned itself out.

 

The have quite a few Crete dropped trailers there...that go to FedEx..in Ohio and Illinois

 

"Officials said many employees had to leave their phones during evacuation and couldn’t contact family, CBS 4 reported."

Yeah, thats a nope from me, im not working at any place that requires me to leave my phone in a locker or the car. Places that expect that kind of control over their employees and arent running a particle accelerator or some such highly sensitive equipment are just being authoritarian twits that im uninterested in participating in their power-tripping. Same goes for places i pick up or deliver that require me to show my license and make a copy of it, if youre not the department of defense, a nuclear reactor or something on that level, its all just stupid. Im delivering coils of steel to your water heater plant, give me a GOOD reason you get to keep a copy of my license without showing me your protocol for destroying the data the second i leave.