It wasn’t sewage...just fire sprinklers.
Sprinkler systems are not tested....once they are in place and charged, they remain that way unless drained for alteration or new construction.
Hence the water inside remains and stagnates...sometimes for decades. The water smells like sewage because the same water has been sitting in those pipes for years.
Too late! They’re already riding off in all directions.
I'm glad you pointed that out. Some in an earlier thread pointed that out as well -- but that thread got deleted for some unknown reason.
That being said, what a lovely time for all that stagnant water to be purged from the system.
Somewhat correct. In wet pipe fire protection systems, the fire protection water lines stay charged, but have sprinkler heads with seals which melt at temperatures identifiable with fires. When the lights for the cameras heated up the heads, it reads as if they let loose and flooded the red carpet area.
The water in those systems are dead end runs, which have never been purged of oil/rust/grease/construction debris from original construction, nor from subsequent corrosion and bacteriological growth of anaerobic bacteria, (the smelly stuff when exposed to air).
The intent of those systems is to give people enough time to escape with their lives and not fall victim to fire.
I suspect the Beverly Hills Hotel will extract damages both for material damages, torts, and badwill from the entertainment companies that set up their camera hardware there causing the FP system to trip. (PS the systems are tested annually and FA systems monthly.)
That’s exactly what I figured — stagnant water in the sprinkler pipes. But you can’t expect media types to understand this sort of thing.