I think someone might have not understood the assingnment when told to build a “fire station”.
r/nottheonion
> But Schäfer said it was not legally required to have a fire alarm because it belonged to the local municipality and was classified as a building holding equipment, not a fire station.
😐
Germans are funny too, sometimes
No Anakin. You were the chosen one. You were supposed to fight evil not join them.
TLDR coffee break summary
A state-of-the-art fire station in Stadtallendorf, Germany, burned down due to the absence of a fire alarm, which wasn’t legally required because the building was classified as storing equipment. The fire caused €20-24 million in damage and destroyed ten engines. The incident has sparked calls to review fire safety regulations, highlighting a loophole in the classification system. The suspected cause was a malfunctioning battery charger, and rebuilding efforts will likely push for stricter safety measures.
Oh the irony
The fire clearly did not follow the protocol.
> No one was injured although 10 fire engines were destroyed.
Strategically excellent play by the Fire though…
My favourite bit of info about this is from another article in German reading: “Über eine Ausstattung mit einem Feueralarm wird debattiert.”
So for the eventual rebuild of the fire station they are still DEBATING whether they need to install a fire alarm. Like you are still debating this???
😓😶
I sense a nice money-laundering scheme …
German efficiency ? Der Zusammenbruch !
You just *know* there were so, so many sarcastic jokes made when they were fitting this out, about fire stations never needing alarms.
Unfortunately its not up to the Firefighters to fit alarms. Thats decided by a chaircommando
r/nottheonion
Ironic, it could save others from fire, but not itself.
This is probably the most German thing to ever happen.
>Whether a future structure would be fitted with a fire alarm system would be a matter for discussion, officials said.
why would it be a matter for discussion?
also to make the situation even worse, the fire station in question had finished construction just last year
>Whether a future structure would be fitted with a fire alarm system would be a matter for discussion, officials said.
why would it be a matter for discussion?
also to make the situation even worse, the fire station in question had finished construction just last year
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it became the very thing it had sworn to destroy
I think someone might have not understood the assingnment when told to build a “fire station”.
r/nottheonion
> But Schäfer said it was not legally required to have a fire alarm because it belonged to the local municipality and was classified as a building holding equipment, not a fire station.
😐
Germans are funny too, sometimes
No Anakin. You were the chosen one.
You were supposed to fight evil not join them.
TLDR coffee break summary
A state-of-the-art fire station in Stadtallendorf, Germany, burned down due to the absence of a fire alarm, which wasn’t legally required because the building was classified as storing equipment. The fire caused €20-24 million in damage and destroyed ten engines. The incident has sparked calls to review fire safety regulations, highlighting a loophole in the classification system. The suspected cause was a malfunctioning battery charger, and rebuilding efforts will likely push for stricter safety measures.
Oh the irony
The fire clearly did not follow the protocol.
> No one was injured although 10 fire engines were destroyed.
Strategically excellent play by the Fire though…
My favourite bit of info about this is from another article in German reading: “Über eine Ausstattung mit einem Feueralarm wird debattiert.”
So for the eventual rebuild of the fire station they are still DEBATING whether they need to install a fire alarm. Like you are still debating this???
😓😶
I sense a nice money-laundering scheme …
German efficiency ?
Der Zusammenbruch !
You just *know* there were so, so many sarcastic jokes made when they were fitting this out, about fire stations never needing alarms.
Unfortunately its not up to the Firefighters to fit alarms. Thats decided by a chaircommando
r/nottheonion
Ironic, it could save others from fire, but not itself.
This is probably the most German thing to ever happen.
>Whether a future structure would be fitted with a fire alarm system would be a matter for discussion, officials said.
why would it be a matter for discussion?
also to make the situation even worse, the fire station in question had finished construction just last year
>Whether a future structure would be fitted with a fire alarm system would be a matter for discussion, officials said.
why would it be a matter for discussion?
also to make the situation even worse, the fire station in question had finished construction just last year