Feel free to move this topic, I wasn’t sure where to Put it under. Anyways, my favorite burger joint burnt down last night. Its name was Oscar’s, And ever since I moved to the city, we had went to there at least once every two weeks. The building was built in 1991. The cause of the fire is still not determined, And they said it’s a complete loss. According to fire reports, After all the employees left at about 12 last night, A fire broke out inside the building. The fire quickly spread to the roof and engulf the entire roof section. There Was no fire alarm system Inside the building, in the building was not sprinkled. I always was kind of curious why this building had no fire protection, and its occupancy was about 50. Looking back in pictures, it looks like there were suppression systems for the grills, But that’s it. It’s kind of unbelievable as I said, that’s this building. Had no sprinklers or fire alarms at all. The building did have exit signage, but that didn’t help in the Situation, because the building was vacant, because it was closed. My current place of work, that is a restaurant, has an occupancy of 35 And the entire building is Sprinkled, And has a Potter FACP Sprinkler monitoring panel. According to the fire officials, seven other departments had to provide mutual aid and the fire took 90 minutes to put out. The fire officials knew there was a fire because a pastor by called 911. By that point, it was probably too late. The building was sprinkler and had a alarm system, the fire department could’ve been notified right when the fire broke out and maybe the building wouldn’t have completely burned down. It’s really unfortunate that this happened, And I hope they rebuild.
I attached some pictures, To show the extent of the damage.
Before:
!
IMG_6258|379x499
Last picture I took a week ago:
Damage: