Ocado

[Andrew_C]

New ranges available from Ocado! Smoked corn-flakes, smoked avocado, smoked cat food and smoked toilet paper.

 

 

It has been burning for two days now; downgraded from "major incident" yesterday, back up when it got close to large chemical tanks. 500m exclusion zone.

[MatthewL]

Absolutely massive commitment of resources seen here, 6 counties have supplied resources to help battle this.

 

Biggest concern last night was the ammonia tanks going bang for the refrigeration but they have managed to stop that.

 

Getting water seems to have been the biggest issue by looks of it and then once inside its like a maze which is dangerous to commit Firefighters into. Hats off to those involved they have contained it well and not caused too much local disruption purely down to the size of the site.

[Andrew_C]

Hats off to those involved

Husband of a colleague was there Tuesday, but off yesterday as he'd just finished a run of nights. He reckons there are going to be lots of questions about the design of these building...

[MatthewL]

No doubt questions will be asked, I had seem something that they had sprinklers/suppression system install but something has gone wrong massively to end up where it has.

 

If said system was in and working correctly that should of been dealt with within an hour, not 2 days later. There are thousands of buildings like this up and down the country and some have been involved, many are not insured as its cheaper to rebuilt and suspect that will happen here.

 

It will all come out in the wash once dealt with.

[psydii]

Upside to this was that many customers didn't place orders yesterday, which meant I got a same day delivery on my order this morning!

 

I hope for Ocado's sake that the spread of the fire wasn't as a result of the 'robots only' design. Their business model is to build, run and maintain these warehouses for other household names across the world. The consumer online supermarket that we see is to Ocado Group as Amazon.com is to AWS.

 

I mean, imagine if AWS or Azure lost an entire datacentre.

[maark]

A robot can't smell smoke - need olfactory upgrade.

[Andrew_C]

I wonder what sort of batteries those bots had?

 

 

Hmmm....

 

Edited February 8, 2019 by Andrew_C

[MatthewL]

Been sent this picture form this incident, it is what was left of a 13.5m ladder which is normally used to reach the 4th or 5th floor of a building, to the left in front of the pile of red hose is the remained of the heel bar the bit at the bottom of the one pictured with the windy handles!

 

They were forced to evacuate the area due to the fire and this was left when they returned!! Never have I seen a ladder destroyed like that in an incident so gives you some idea of the severity of it.