Posted on 12/20/2021 6:55:17 PM PST by blueplum
ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. (AP) — A fire ripped through a distribution center in North Carolina for the QVC home-shopping television network early Saturday, causing extensive damage to the facility, officials said.
More than 300 employees were working at the facility near Rocky Mount when the fire was reported shortly after 2 a.m., The News & Observer reported. No injuries were immediately reported.
QVC representatives reported that all employees safely evacuated...
....Evans said a “main section” of the 1.2 million-square-foot (365,000-square-meter) facility appears to be destroyed. Crews from nearly 45 fire departments were still fighting the blaze more than 12 hours after it began.....
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
There goes that Ginsu knife set I ordered for my wife.
On their website it states this may impact Christmas deliveries.
They should have bought a building sprinkler system from a contractor not Amazon.
Yes, but your life expectancy will increase!
Typical AP inaccuracy. One young man died in the fire, a new employee who had worked there for three weeks. He was 21 years old and leaves behind a one year daughter.
Yes, Christmas deliveries will be impacted.
All the AP “reporter” had to do was check QVC’s website.
“There goes that Ginsu knife set I ordered for my wife.”
No big loss, it would have rusted anyway, after its first run through the dishwasher.
But not the money they will get from the insurance. It’s like Hey everything’s sold!
All that precious cubic zirconia!
I bought a knockoff ginzu knife at an “as seen on TV” store in an outlet mall for $4. It ended up being one of the best kitchen knives I’ve ever used.
Lots of disgruntled employees on Third Shift.
I did a lot of warehouse jobs in my youth.
The only significant concentration of flammable material is packing material - cardboard, bubble wrap, etc.
Modern warehouses have concrete floors, steel walls, steel roof, steel pallet racks, etc.
Maybe stacks of wooden or plastic pallets?
Hard to understand how a modern warehouse fire would spread widely unless an accelerant was used.
The linked AP report was published two days ago, December 18, same day as the fire.
I will speculate that QVC did not publicly disclose a death until family notification was complete.
Regardless, I dislike AP at least as much as you do.
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