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   mark (atleagle@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 07:01:55 JST mark

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   • Wary Jerry
   • Amar Balikai

   @abalikai @jerry this had to be preventable. Why would anyone install water as a fire protection system when you have things that do this when exposed to water. There are other systems, or ways to isolate the stuff that goes boom.

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     Amar Balikai (abalikai@theatl.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 07:01:59 JST Amar Balikai

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     • Wary Jerry

     @jerry the moment I heard about the fire I immediately thought of the Bhopal, India tragedy. Water reactive chemicals were exposed to water. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster. Praying for everyone in #Atlanta exposed to this probably preventable incident.

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     Wary Jerry (jerry@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 07:02:00 JST Wary Jerry

     I’ve been watching the aftermath of the big chemical fire in Atlanta that was apparently the result of a sprinkler system spraying water into water reactive chemicals and I’m reminded of my experience 25 years ago building a data center in Atlanta and wanting to use chemical fire suppression instead of water and the fire marshal’s comment was “you can use whatever you want, but it also needs to have water suppression” and I’m wondering if that’s what happened here.