Firefighters responded to a massive fire in Tracy that left a 1 million-square-foot medical supply distribution center in ruins and sent large plumes of black smoke and debris into the sky.
The failure of the private water system “significantly impacted” the firefight, he said.
On Friday, Deputy Chief Brian Bagley said crews had needed two fire engines to connect to municipal fire lines about 1,600 feet away from the warehouse.
The sprinkler system was last tested in January. Without being in operation on Thursday, the building was “fully consumed” within 40 minutes, Bagley said
yeah that’s the key sentence right there
It’s almost like capitalism fails everyone but the capitalists.