[Patriot777]

Officials in California have also stated that this fire is basically a wake-up call toward what would happen if a major earthquake struck in Los Angeles, as they had serious trouble containing this fire. My take on this is, if there was a major quake there, there would be no way to contain the fires, just like they couldn't during the terrible quake in San Francisco a long time ago. My father was both a civil engineer and a professional land surveyor, and lived in California for quite a few years; he said that if all the buildings and homes were built in the shape of pyramids, it would likely eliminate 80-90% of the destruction there, but we all know as far as underground gas and water lines, freeway overpasses and such, they will not survive the onslaught of a magnitude 7.0 or greater.

[Red Badger]

Wonder if this had anything to do with the various ‘protests’?...................

[boycott]

Your post made me think of this video:

Compliation of Gasline Explosions in Kaohsiung, Taiwan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXjjcyypHYM

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

I will take some issue with this piece of alarm. I’m not suggesting that a major EQ that knocks down buildings would be any sort of fun party.

It’s now code that buildings have to have valves on their NG feeds that shut off in the event of a serious EQ.

Existing buildings have, or should be sheetrocked. They are not bare studs sticking in the air.

It don’t know but I don’t think this was a NG fire. This was either an instance of vandalism or arson (or both) committed on a building mostly framed but with no sheetrock/fireproofing nor sprinklers (obviously) in place.

As an incomplete building, this had no fire alarms, no smoke detectors. That there were no security guards watching the site, essentially a city block full of standing-up kindling, for the crappy $6-7K/month that might have cost is a foolish economy on the part of the builder, IMHO. Unless he wanted it to go poof.

[siamesecats]

Didn’t this happen yesterday???

[editor-surveyor]

>> “ but we all know as far as underground gas and water lines, freeway overpasses and such, they will not survive the onslaught of a magnitude 7.0 or greater.” <<

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The old Bay Bridge easily survived such a quake in 1989, so they tore it down and built one that they are now confident will fail.

Water and gas trunk lines can be equipped with valves that will automatically isolate ruptured sections. It is routinely done in 3rd world countries, but not anywhere here as far as I know.

Finally, this fire was definitely sabotage; only a complete fool could fail to recognize that.

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[deport]

Massive Fire thread from yesterday

Photos at this article