Plainfield Walmart warehouse building fire live update - March 17, 2022

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[tylerbuckley]

I am happy everyone made it out safely

[lwrefrigeratedexpress]

Strange how this just happened to happen during a supply crisis

[slackjaw]

Don’t donate to this. Walmart is well off and can fix this themselves. They are rich.

[davepelfrey]

Definitely looking forward to see how this fire started and spread to everything including the trailers waiting to be loaded and uploaded.

[elibello]

How does that even happen with all the safety in place???
The fire safety inspectors should be looked into. Someone didn't do their job.

[patriciadelph]

Isn’t this convenient. Just as everyone is having hard times stocking food already.

[georgehasler]

I work at 5303 in Prescott Arizona glad to hear that everyone made it out safe

[lilmike]

I saw this yesterday. Saw a giant column of smoke towering up over the sky. I was SB on I65 in Indianapolis in. Turned on my CB and was told it was WalMart. Scary looking column of black smoke that could be seen for miles

[notlisted]

Seriously how in the hell does a Walmart main distribution center go up and smoke.... What a fiasco.... Something doesn't smell right here.

[davidjones]

Hmm... I wonder if this is part of the shortages they keep saying are coming. Suspect or not, this isnt good for the old supply chain!

[ericp.]

I use to work there, and I'm glad everyone is ok!

[Mhoram]

QVC and now Walmart. Which company will be next? These fires are just so suspicious.

[garyroach]

My question is why didn't the sprinkler systems turn on and put the fire out before it got out of control bc I am betting its a new enough building where it was required to have sprinkler systems on the inside of it and as fast it spread and hot it burned I am betting someone intentionally set that fire being a fireman I've seen fires like that and it was intentionally set there there's no way around that and then somebody disabled the sprinkler systems for the whole building and I hope they find out who did bc they got all kinds of cameras in those buildings nowadays so whoever did it better just get a good lawyer because you're going to need one

[stevemanuel]

Fire sprinkler system is designed for this purpose. It clearly was not working.

[rachelgibson]

Why were the 2 anchors at the desk making the crazy motion with their fingers to their heads?

[BrandonF]

It was planned. Just one step towards a successful food shortage.

[jamesconway]

it's obvious that the sprinkler system did not work correctly at this Walmart Warehouse and the fact that the warehouse was completely totally overloaded Beyond capacity as Walmart loves to do. Making it even that much harder for the fire department to put it out. I'm surprised the news is not talking about all the lock doors that aren't supposed to be locked for emergencies just like this not to mention all the completely blocked hallways overfilled with merchandise.

[StickA-ydfp]

Damn melted those trailers in half. That is some intense heat.

[theariesexperiment]

That looks like there was an explosion initially. The amount of debris and front walls missing. Interesting.

[UncleSam-bugz]

Second food distribution center fire in 10 days. NOT an accident. One in Taiwan too.