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Originally Posted by Galakanokis
$50K seems awfully high. Wonder how long the water ran for. Some of my techs set off a sprinkler head when they were moving a bunch or racks about 5 or 6 years ago. One sprinkler went off and that, from what the firemen told me is normal. It took maybe 10 minutes to get a hold of building operations and shut the water off. Probably 4 or 5 inches of water built up on the top floor and it rained down all the way to the 2nd floor. I had a waterfall outside my window (directly below the accident). I think all told it cost us under $15,000 to clean up and repair anything that was damaged. Thinking the school dropped the ball on the clean up afterwards and that is why the damage was so high.
One of the first thing the firemen asked was where are the cages around the sprinkler heads? They should be mandatory on any publicly exposed sprinkler head so crap like this doesn't happen.
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I was thinking my school had cages over the sprinklers and that was back in the 70's, I suspect it was to deter kids hanging the class victim off them, as to the cost, there's a hell of a lot of tech gear in classes these days.