physis
Senior Member
This morning my partner and I went to a Chinese retauraunt to, basically, get these guys back into business today. The fire department had just left last night.
There're a few different issues I want to get some opinions on, or probably more accurately, just cause some discussion.
What happened was an exterior halogen parking lot lamp, mounted on the building, had caused a fire. It burned a little bit of the building exterior, toasted the end of an MN cable (yeah, commercial). The fire department did an amazingly small amount of damage but there is an at least 4' square hole in the side of the building now and the suspended ceiling inside is moderately damaged to about 4X8 feet.
The first thing I thought was weird was that the fire department, instead of tripping the main, turned off every single branch cicuit breaker, like 40 of 'em. The main was right there in that panel. It would have been nice to just find wnich one tripped. But, whatever.
It costed $100 to just 86 the fixture and make the circuit safe. The wife was very unhappy about this, (I'll bet ya I couldn't have gotten a better price on a menu item from her, you know, given the unhealthy rubble in there? :grin
even though we were there in less than an hour of their call. They were going to do businees with the rubble laying on three tables in their eating area until we mentioned Health Dept.
There's also a neon transformer parked at the roof in the attic area. This thing has 4 terminals. There're are four conductors poked through the exterior wall, two just flop around in the wind and the other two feed this really scary perifery tube and an open sign, with lots of uninsulated secondary conductors.
There're a few different issues I want to get some opinions on, or probably more accurately, just cause some discussion.
What happened was an exterior halogen parking lot lamp, mounted on the building, had caused a fire. It burned a little bit of the building exterior, toasted the end of an MN cable (yeah, commercial). The fire department did an amazingly small amount of damage but there is an at least 4' square hole in the side of the building now and the suspended ceiling inside is moderately damaged to about 4X8 feet.
The first thing I thought was weird was that the fire department, instead of tripping the main, turned off every single branch cicuit breaker, like 40 of 'em. The main was right there in that panel. It would have been nice to just find wnich one tripped. But, whatever.
It costed $100 to just 86 the fixture and make the circuit safe. The wife was very unhappy about this, (I'll bet ya I couldn't have gotten a better price on a menu item from her, you know, given the unhealthy rubble in there? :grin
even though we were there in less than an hour of their call. They were going to do businees with the rubble laying on three tables in their eating area until we mentioned Health Dept.There's also a neon transformer parked at the roof in the attic area. This thing has 4 terminals. There're are four conductors poked through the exterior wall, two just flop around in the wind and the other two feed this really scary perifery tube and an open sign, with lots of uninsulated secondary conductors.
