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Employee accused of arson after paper goods warehouse destroyed in massive fire in Ontario (abc7.com)

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[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

The news always fails to mention that this kind of stuff is knowable. The engineers that sized the fire suppression system knew with some degree of precision how much heat the company's paper products generate when ignited. The system should have been sized for significantly more than that, specifically so a fire can't get out of control and destroy the entire warehouse.

The fact the roof collapsed stinks of cost cutting. Or maybe something just failed?. We'll probably never get that kind of detail.