Saturday, February 05, 2011

Bad News: IKEA Netanya Burned Down

While waiting the computer to work through a program I am surfing the net. IKEA in Netanya burned down this night (it was raining, it had an up-to-date sprinkler system, so how?).
This failure, coming after the Carmel forest fire, will frighten the Fire people, who will now stop issueing permits in Netanya. Few will receive business permits and therefore enjoy fire insurance protection. Water engineers in the field will be able to charge more.

Update: The police is investigating the possibility of arson. Four vehicles went up one after the other that night in the neighborhood. The IKEA building collapsed because its steel structure melted. Just like the Twin Towers? It seems that there is no good termal isolation for the steels holding these kinds of buildings.

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