The fire ignited when a sprinkler head malfunctioned around 5 a.m. Sunday at the BioLab plant in Conyers, Rockdale County Fire Chief Marian McDaniel told reporters. The malfunction caused water to mix with a water-reactive chemical, producing a plume of chemicals.
It seems like a pretty fucking big oversight to put a water based fire suppression system in a building that stores water-reactive chemicals.
The same things were said by the Ukrainian government just before the very obvious
SovietRussian invasion began.I believe at the time it was generally accepted that it was to keep the Ukrainian citizens calm because having to deal with civil unrest in the form of widespread panic would only serve to complicate the incoming invasion response.