It is not surprising that a fire at a Home Depot store would be that serious given all the flammable materials kept on inventory. Think of all the paint cans burning, and all those alcohol-based and petroleum-based products burning. Think of all those small propane canisters exploding, as well as all the aerosol cans. These home supply stores like Lowe's and Home Depot are hot spots for flammable materials.

What about the sprinkler system, I guess it didn't work as planned.

Questions surround San Jose Home Depot’s sprinkler, alarm systems after massive fire, They pay employees a dirt level wage, ya think there fire system would be top notched ! Bye bye Mr manager YOU ARE FIRED !!!!

I have another comment about this video in addition to the two others I posted: Arson is being blamed as a possibility for this fire. But I would ask the question of just why a fire in a place like this needs a sweet cuddling from a fire lover with a match? For it seems that all the flammable materials in a place like a Home Depot would make a fire love itself --- and its offspring --- just fine. Why, even a spark from a defective electrical outlet --- and WHOOSH!

your fellow homers are here for you home depot employees yammer will help you

This person who caused this fire needs locked away for good. No more free slaps on the wrist. He's dangerous.

My local Home Depot keeps shopping carts and trolleys in the Fire Lane, right in front of fire hydrants and 'No Parking Fire Lane' signs. They also store lumber around back in marked Fire Lanes with red-painted curbs. I've mentioned this to the store manager several times and he just shrugged. The local police said nothing when I shared my story with the officer who responded to the Home Depot complaint of a guy filming in their parking lot (me). I even heard the Home Depot employee tell the officer I had stopped my truck (running) "in the fire lane, can't you do something?" while I photographed. The cop was totally uninterested when I pointed out the risk to the public and firefighters if a fire broke out. I think I'll pass this story to them.

All that Lumber is now kiln dried So they just doubled the price

If you think about it: That community just lost a lot of tax dollars. ... An average Home Depot store has about 107,000 square feet, 125 employees, stocks anywhere between 20,000 (low), 30,000-40,000 (med), or 50,000 (high) sku items (depending on season and promotions), turns over its inventory about 5x a year, and rakes in an average Fifty Million Dollars in annual sales revenue in the process. ... HD often beats out Lowes by marketing to Contractors and Women by focusing on customer service and comparative pricing.

Didn't Home Depot jave overhead sprinklers? Since when was that phased put?

This will continue to happen if you don’t punish criminals

+NBCBayArea *Thanks for the update on the Home Depot write-off.* How soon are forensic techs from the U. S. Department of Justice due in? Specific merchandise in the former Lumber Department, e.g. adhesives, are classified as flammables; but naphtha and gasoline indicate possible arson. Gasoline was sold from the former Garden Department as an expendable (spec., fuel) to support power tools such as chainsaws, mowers and tillers.

Will be ever be rebuilt? If not, I request that the suspect shall not be allowed to obtain a US passport, board an airplane, or visit any federal facilities for a minimum of 55 years.

Big company win on insurance claims employee mass drop or relocation, a goof to pin it on what more could you ask for

This isn't the embodiment of "speaking out".

Home Depot is closed

1:07 yeh, that be a “I don’t get paid enough for this shit.”

Which liberal group set this fire?

I call bullshit. burned to fast. this is arson.

You can now buy your burgers flame broiled courtesy of home depot

They are now selling the lumber as shou sugi ban and they just tripled the price

God damn forget about how the fire started i want to know what idiot installed the fire alarm system that so happen to activate when the roof was about to fall

Remember when the news used to have young hot chicks with big knockers that told the news?

Why is it incredible work by firefighters for the building to be a total loss? he has no idea whether they did an incredible job. what did they do that was so incredible. If he thinks that’s an incredible job he should start up an Insurance company and Only insure Home Depot’s

I'm sorry. I used the restroom after having three chalupas!

They are still wearing masks in California 😂

The saddest thing about this fire is all of those products destroyed that could have been used for good things. They could have ended up in somebody's workshop to be used on a nice project, but instead their "lives" were aborted in a retail outlet. But here's another angle to it: It is easy to forget that flammable products that are stacked in a retail outlet like Home Depot or Lowe's with all kinds of price tags and store bargains attached to them will explode and burn just as easily as those same products in an industrial plant. Hey everybody, see this on display. Fifty percent off on this. Closeout sale on this. Take this home today for this easy down payment. Spruce up your house with this. Try this new product on your car. Try it in your engine. Try it in your tires. Build your new deck and your new garage with this, and with this, and with this. But all the hoopla about all the things you can buy downtown where all the lights are bright is only a nice cute facade for the fact that all those things on all the store shelves at your local DIY retail outlet still will explode like miniature bombs and grenades. Those products have just as much destructive force while sitting on a store shelf waiting to be bought by all the shoppers as they have inside an industrial tank at a factory, or if you abuse them in your workshop at home. You buy them, take them home, and then (hopefully) you read the instructions printed on them that read things like "WARNING: EXTREMELY FLAMMABLE! DO NOT USE NEAR HEAT OR OPEN FLAME," or "WARNING: DO NOT STORE ABOVE 120 DEGREES F." So then what happens to those products when the store they're sold in catches fire? THEN what about heat and open flame? Likewise you read on all those metal cans messages like "VAPOR HARMFUL." Ooohhh, so we got vapors now, have we? Looks like more fodder for the flames when all those cans of PVC pipe solvent and cement blow up. See the flashes of flame as the fire hits all those paint cans; all those aerosol cans; all those WD40 cans. Watch rivers of fire pour across the store floor as all those plastic bottles and jugs of automotive engine oil and lubricating grease rupture and spill their contents in many flaming messes which then unite as one. I told another commenter on this video, just hours ago, that this is why these home supply stores are nothing short of hotbeds of flammable materials AND combustible plastics, and he was in full agreement. Oh by the way: Those places prohibit propane tanks from being brought into their buildings --- but do they ever think about the much smaller miniature bombs that sit so neatly lined up on the display shelves? See them sitting there so neatly stacked and lined up; they sell for this price and that price. But when the fire hits them they still will explode with shrapnel just as they would at the factory.

It was a small store and often disappointing

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