A fire alarm system wasn’t installed in the building because experts did not consider it necessary.

A new fire station in Germany that was destroyed in a fire, causing millions of euros in damage, did not have a fire alarm system.

The fire broke out early Wednesday morning at the Stadtallendorf fire station in Hesse and destroyed the equipment hall and almost a dozen emergency vehicles, according to local media.

Initial estimates put the damage at between €20 million and €24 million. No one was injured.

Local officials told the German news agency dpa that no fire alarm system was installed in the building because experts had considered it not necessary — much to the astonishment of many observers now that the station has burned down.

  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 month ago

    What an astonishing bunch of dumb fucks. Having electric vehicles and charging stations in there (which is what caused the fire), aside from things like electrical shorts, lots of computers and printers and all the random stuff firef8ghters like bringing with them to work, electrical shorts in vehicles, and things like forgetting to shut off a stove when an alarm call comes out and everyone is rushing out the door…it’s ironic, but fire stations definitely burn down. It’s not a one in a million occurance, and that station was HUGE. How dumb do you have to be to have a building and stuff stored there all worth way in excess of $20,000,000 and not spend the chump change on an alarm system?