[catnipman]

so, wonder why they didn’t try to empty out the rest of the warehouse as a precaution, but instead just decided to risk their remaining stock?

[BethelPatriot]

” why they didn’t try to empty out the rest of the warehouse”

Would you have been willing to go inside a half collapsed multi story post and beam building and start moving things around for $15 an hour?

Likely OHSA wouldn’t let anyone within 100 feet of the site.

[BBell]

Probably too dangerous.

This is from the first collapse.

The second

[Pontiac]

so, wonder why they didn’t try to empty out the rest of the warehouse as a precaution, but instead just decided to risk their remaining stock?

Access.

You have to be able to get to the barrels to remove them.

The first thing that would happen after a partial collapse of a building is a county engineer/building inspector would post the building as ‘danger do not enter. ‘ There would be no way to know if or when the rest of the building might fall on its own.

Until an architect engineer inspected the building and deemed it safe to enter no one would be permitted to work in the building.

If you look at the pictures of the first collapse there was no way to get to one side of the building due to the pile of barrels and collapsed building.

[katana]

Place was multi-story and looked like it was built with nothing but 2x4's. I've seen slum buildings in India that looked better constructed. Visited the Glen Livet distillery in Scotland years ago and all their barrels (re-used American Bourbon barrels, by the way) were in a long one story warehouse. No chance of anything like this happening (fire, on the other hand?). You can take the boys out of the Hills, but you can't take the Hillbilly out of the boys.

[RetiredTexasVet]

My thoughts .... what were they thinking or more properly, not thinking?