• KhanCipher [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    4 days ago

    Maybe factory fires aren’t that rare

    At the factory (which worked with molten aluminum) I worked at for 5 years, a fire happened at least once a year there on night shift.

    The worst one when I was there being that some molten aluminum from a melting furnace had splashed up 20+ feet from the furnace to the ceiling, and because of all the dust particles and oil residue that had collected on it, it got set on fire a little bit. Nothing bad enough to do any damage to the building, but we were all standing around outside in the parking lot for a couple hours while 4 or so trucks from two or more municipalities responded.

    The funniest one was a light fixture caught fire, and melted itself off the ceiling. The funny part was it was near the end of the shift, and the whole maintenance team was just standing there looking up at it, kinda just waiting for it to either burn itself out or get worse to pull the alarm, and a bunch of us who could see the light fixture on fire was also looking at it burn itself out too.

    Essentially this is just a bunch of western journalists showing off just how disconnected they are to the communities and areas they report the news to/from.