Posted on 03/16/2022 12:23:19 PM PDT by C210N
HENDRICKS COUNTY — Crews are battling a massive fire at a Walmart distribution center Wednesday afternoon in Hendricks County.
The Plainfield Fire Territory confirms the fire at the distribution center on AllPoints Parkway.
The Brownsburg Fire Department said this is now a 5-alarm fire.
Walmart had 1,000 employees inside at the time the fire broke out, Plainfield Police Department Deputy Chief Joe Aldridge said.
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Walmart facilities usually have pretty good fire suppression systems (sprinklers).
The size of this fire is puzzling given the presence of sprinklers in the building which should at least contain a fire.
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lots of toxicity in that billowing smoke
https://twitter.com/AnneMarieWTHR/status/1504152366161014784
Towns are catching on to this hazard now. Note that Redwood Materials is a co-sponsor of the recycle event. They are a manufacturer of advanced battery materials.
If it's bad now, just wait until when millions of EV batteries are recycled. The most popular Tesla battery contains 7,100 individual battery cells. That means BILLIONS of spent batteries headed for disposal every year.
20 miles away ash falling on cars
https://twitter.com/OptionsLocator/status/1504165647474909188/photo/1
That is unbelievably massive.
I hope everyone is OK.
And that’s going to not help the supply chain issues.
I gotta add...
Hendicks county, I know of at least four. Plainview, I think about five.
None of them in Indiana.
Learn something new on FR every day.
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Well, Vernicia had just had her hair did, and LaFlambe's nails weren't dry and...
I live about 50 miles away and I thought rain storms were coming in…
I think it’s the smoke clouds from the fire!
Gosh, a huge room full of carbon and oxygen burns out of control? No way!
This sort of fire is extinguished by it burning all the fuel. Water just makes it angry.
Jake Allen
@Jake_Allen19
“If you can think of it, it’s probably there,” said Plainfield Fire Chief Brent Anderson of the contents inside the distribution center. “The noises and stuff you hear, yes, they are described as ‘explosions’ but it’s the semi-truck tires and stuff getting overheated.
3:57 PM · Mar 16, 2022
https://twitter.com/JennyDreaslerTV/status/1504184950744141835
this is the kind of smoke that could give someone cancer
reports of explosions are being explained as because of the heavy tires overheating, etc.
All they are going to do for that fire is set the sticks around the perimeter and spray water on it knowing that the fire will burn itself out.
Most of the water will flash before it ever makes it to the seat of the fire so it will just continue to burn.
ATF comes in because they have enough people to attempt to investigate it but with that level of damage, not much can be determined. About the only thing that will help is if CCTV video survives.
Hopefully cloud storage.
rain not forcasted until Friday. Have no idea if that level of heat and smoke would upset whatever was going to happen in the atmosphere. It would make sense it would effect the weather.
This is very close to the Indianapolis Airport.
here is another interesting story from Indiana. For some reason it was targeted by some Chilean gang
By the time the sprinklers kick in it is probably too late. Probably a million square feet, 40 ft tall, filled with cardboard and plastic.
reunification of walmart employees being done at new Amazon facility. That’s a hoot.
I guess the only place big enough. Maybe they are doing it in parking lot.
There is a phenomena called a “Fire tornado” but I don’t see where this is going to get to that level. The concrete walls will hold the heat in and make getting water on it that much harder.
We just spray “public water” at it to make it look like we are doing something until the fire burns enough of the fuel that we can get in front of the last bit.
I’m -very- curious why the sprinkler system didn’t catch this. It is rare that a sprinkled building burns this hard.
I’m going with lithium ion batteries.
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