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BLAZE HORROR Wadena fire news – Entire city ordered to shelter in place as hazardous materials burn at Minnesota Valley Irrigation
The U.S. Sun ^ | 5/20/22 | Caitlin Hornek

Posted on 05/31/2022 3:44:51 AM PDT by EBH

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To: G Larry

Depends how old the building was. Lots of older buildings don’t have fire sprinklers.


21 posted on 05/31/2022 7:23:02 AM PDT by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia! )
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To: fidelis

If you manufacture sprinklers, you wouldn’t think a building code would be necessary to motivate you to protect your business.


22 posted on 05/31/2022 7:26:05 AM PDT by G Larry (Anybody notice that Satan is hard at work?)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Yep.

5.56mm


23 posted on 05/31/2022 7:30:18 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho got to go.)
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To: G Larry
If you manufacture sprinklers, you wouldn’t think a building code would be necessary to motivate you to protect your business.

I guess that would make sense if you manufactured fire sprinklers, but I read this as they’re manufacturing irrigation piping which might include irrigation sprinklers— an entirely different thing from fire sprinklers. It would indeed be ironic for a fire sprinkler company of any kind to burn down.

24 posted on 05/31/2022 7:37:24 AM PDT by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia! )
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To: EBH

“These places are essentially part of our infrastructure and it sure feels like it is being taken out.”

After election 2020 and the Covid debacle, I can see where (too many of you) are buying into this “food production conspiracy”.

BUT, ITS NUTS!

And YOU PEOPLE attack Alex Jones?


25 posted on 05/31/2022 7:42:19 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: G Larry

When sprinklers are properly designed to match the fuel load they can usually contain a fire. When you have a massive fuel load like ABS or plastic pipe and it is stacked the water from a sprinkler may not reach a fire underneath. It is also easy for a large fuel load fire (like this one apparently) to overwhelm a common sprinkler system.

Plastic pipes are not easily ignited but once they do they melt and create a very intense and noxious fire.


26 posted on 05/31/2022 7:44:01 AM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: EBH

The megalopolis of Wadena, Minnesota.

The population of Wadena was 4,325 at the 2020 census.

CITY?

It makes the “City of EVIL” (Ithaca, NY) a metropolis (it is NOT) by comparison.

“Ithaca, New York Population 2022. Ithaca is a city located in Tompkins County New York. With a 2020 population of 31,371”


27 posted on 05/31/2022 7:55:16 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: 21twelve

Isn’t Wadena the town that was wrecked by an E5 in the movie Twister?


28 posted on 05/31/2022 8:32:24 AM PDT by citizen (Thieves of private property pass their lives in chains; thieves of public prop. in riches and luxury)
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To: citizen

Wakita, OK.


29 posted on 05/31/2022 8:57:18 AM PDT by moovova
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To: moovova

Ah, thanks.


30 posted on 05/31/2022 9:46:04 AM PDT by citizen (Thieves of private property pass their lives in chains; thieves of public prop. in riches and luxury)
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To: citizen

Very close memory, though! Very close.


31 posted on 05/31/2022 9:59:19 AM PDT by moovova
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To: citizen; BuchananBrigadeTrumpFan

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1788867/

I see that the movie “Twister” was based on Oklahoma, but did find a three-part documentary (Discovery channel) following storm chasers that concludes with them in a big tornado in Wadena.


32 posted on 05/31/2022 12:00:53 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: EBH; ClearCase_guy
And none of these are small fires....

Probably using Willy Peter as an accelerant to make sure the destruction is thorough and complete.

33 posted on 05/31/2022 9:29:33 PM PDT by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous world.)
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