11 Trucks burn at Poly-America manufacturing

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  1. Getsinyourblood

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  3. lovesthedrive

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    Its very strange as the fire is only burning at the drive tires.
    fire.jpg
     
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    wait....isnt this like the 3rd or 4th in the past year at a Poly facility??? @Harry Flashman
     
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  5. Getsinyourblood

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    Like the article said, there was a fire there August 18, 2020. It was caused by downed power lines.
     
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    There was another 1 or 2 at other plants as well.
     
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  7. JoeyJunk

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    That was determined to not be the case. Read the bottom of the article. They had a plant burn up pretty good in SC I think?
     
  8. Harry Flashman

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    I have my suspicions about what is happening at poly.

    they have been very heavy handed with face mask enforcement and last time I was at Grand Prairie I was talking to one of the dock workers and he said that workers have been sabotaging equipment and vandalizing the property since the face mask rules have gone back into effect

    I also heard from someone at the shop, that someone has been dumping diesel fuel into the DEF tanks of bobtails in GP

    I had to go into the managers office to talk about an unrelated issue, as I was talking to him my face mask slipped just a bit and he started screaming at me that he would throw me out of the office if I didn’t keep my face mask up.

    Only reason I didn’t walk out of the office when the manager was yelling at me was because it was SC and I didn’t want to rent a car to get home,

    It is getting ugly at poly. You got lots of Karen’s who are looking for any way of making people’s lives miserable for breaking the COVID rules, and now you have unhinged people lashing out at the company.

    I’m fed up with the toxic environment at poly, I am actively looking for another job.

    Nobody is forcing them to adopt these rules, they are doing it on their own and blaming CDC “recommendations”

    Also lest you think it was me who set the fires, I was not at any plant when the fires happened, and I have GPS proof to back it up.
     
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  9. Harry Flashman

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    The fires at Grand Prairie and Chester SC last year happened right after the COVID mask enforcement went into effect last summer

    This is the third fire in a year.

    I am on the road, I hope my car is ok, as its parked near the bobtail line probably close to the fire
     
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  10. Dave_in_AZ

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    Article said they ruled out power lines, cause they were still up when it was ablaze.
     
  11. Harry Flashman

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    They ruled out electrical causes, and turned the investigation over to the FBI, though nobody has been charged yet.

    I’m sure the FBI will get called in again, seems like someone is waging his own one-man-war against poly
     
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