A warehouse worker is in custody following a video he recorded of himself setting fire to the warehouse he worked at while stating they "should’ve paid us en...
I was watching the news as it happened and there were 20 employees onsite, all safely evacuated. One firefighter was injured, not seriously. Nobody lives there, it’s all warehouses, and at night they’ll have minimum staff. So in terms of harm to ordinary people it’s pretty minimal.
Mainly loss of livelihood for the 20 workers, but honestly it’s on the boss to redistribute them to help with the shift of orders through other warehouses. At least they should get any severance and paid days off they’re owed, and set up for worker’s comp.
LAFD firefighters are professional and paid, so it’s not calling a bunch of volunteers away from their jobs either.
Paper goods evidently burn really well but they apparently didn’t produce toxic fumes, or there would have been some warnings about it.
I’m not endorsing this kind of action, but it’s not like he set a nursing home or chemical plant on fire.
Well now that’s not a bad point. Fortunately the weather was calm and cool and not too dry. And in the past I would have added, “and it’s in the city, not the hills,” but Altadena has proved a wildfire doesn’t have to be a brushfire.
Not exactly thousands.
I was watching the news as it happened and there were 20 employees onsite, all safely evacuated. One firefighter was injured, not seriously. Nobody lives there, it’s all warehouses, and at night they’ll have minimum staff. So in terms of harm to ordinary people it’s pretty minimal.
Mainly loss of livelihood for the 20 workers, but honestly it’s on the boss to redistribute them to help with the shift of orders through other warehouses. At least they should get any severance and paid days off they’re owed, and set up for worker’s comp.
LAFD firefighters are professional and paid, so it’s not calling a bunch of volunteers away from their jobs either.
Paper goods evidently burn really well but they apparently didn’t produce toxic fumes, or there would have been some warnings about it.
I’m not endorsing this kind of action, but it’s not like he set a nursing home or chemical plant on fire.
Or bombed a girls’ school full of children.
I was moreso thinking it being California, and the possibility of wildfires.
Well now that’s not a bad point. Fortunately the weather was calm and cool and not too dry. And in the past I would have added, “and it’s in the city, not the hills,” but Altadena has proved a wildfire doesn’t have to be a brushfire.