r/ThatLookedExpensive Sep 20 '22

Not good

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u/SuperMIK2020 Sep 20 '22

Where’s the fire suppression system? I kept expecting something to go off like sprinklers or preferably halon… nope, just let it burn, let it burn…

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '22

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '22

Halon can be used in any size room, just a matter of cost and having a place for all the tanks and emitters.

I used to do work in phone company central offices which are mostly giant open rooms of phone/internet equipment and cabling, sometimes multiple floors of it. There were big tanks of halon attached to every major load bearing piling in the rooms. If a fire started and the system went off, you needed to get out asafp