1,000 employees escape fire at Plainfield Walmart warehouse

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[matthewcurry]

Good thing it was a Walmart warehouse and not an Amazon warehouse. I doubt anyone would've been allowed to leave if it was Amazon...

[Markggoose]

Hmmm how can we create an instant shortage. I know burn the distribution center down nothing fishy about the timing of this fire huh.

[letgo]

Don't worry the insurance is paid so no worries for the owners. I feel bad for the employees.

[montanaboy]

WOW!! Thank God no one was seriously hurt or killed!! Excellent community involvement in people stepping up to help taken in the displaced employees until this got put down !! Hope & prayers to all thoses involved and hope they can recover and keep going in the meantime.

[vernonbowling]

This is horrendous thankfully all the workers are safe.

[billykarlbon]

Fire. Smells Fishy too me. How on earth does a modern day building with fire sprinklers get to burn this bad this fast in the middle of the daytime doesn’t add up or makes sense seems very odd and suspicious to me that’s a big building where are all the fire apparatus and firemen

[RDC_Autosports]

a place that big should have a huge fire system … or is walmart getting that cheap?

[daviddowling]

‘’STATE OF THE ART FIRE SUPPRESSION SYSTEM’’……Really.

[spyder]

I live 30 miles away and there was so much smoke that I thought there was a storm coming. It was covering the entire horizon southeast of me.

[carlosmelendez]

After the fire was off
Manager: Okay guys let's keep fulfilling these online orders nothing happen here.

[davegross]

Incoming food shortages to be blamed on this.

[GLN]

Walmart would not be so profitable without its employees. Pay them! and rebuild! Company owner step up! Consumers buy and taketh away!

[stevehetrick]

Well, now there's gonna be a shortage of supplies to all the stores that get their stuff from this distribution center.

[Elmer_Fudd]

*The alcohol tobacco firearms explosives (ATF) will be handling the investigation as to what caused the structural fire.*

[vernondecker]

I'm sure it's no problem for the fed to print 1 trillion give the employees 17 dollars and give the rest to Ukraine.

[damkayaker]

My my just the other day a gigantic distribution center went up in flames in Taiwan. Very suspicious.

[dceballos]

Already there's been a supply shortage, and now to see stuff at Walmart's distribution center go up in flames will undoubtedly have far reaching ramifications.

[tonyaberney]

Expect more of these to happen this is all a plan. On purpose
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[trustme]

Anyone that doesn't know the difference between a truck and a trailer shouldn't be on TV.

[gregorydiehl]

Someone will say Trump had something to do with it