![]() The fire left debris littered across yards nearby. The blaze swelled so massively that satellite imagery captured the smoke. As she and her coworkers left, Butler said, it wasn’t immediately obvious how massive the fire would become.īutler was one of roughly 1,000 people forced to evacuate the Walmart fulfillment center, at 9590 Allpoints Parkway, on Wednesday after a fire broke out at the facility and continued to burn for hours. More: Walmart fulfillment center fire in Plainfield: What we know about massive Indiana blazeīutler said managers and asset protection workers scoured the facility’s aisles and bathrooms to make sure they were clear. Workers said over the airwaves that they were grabbing fire extinguishers and calling 911 as others exited the building. Butler said that’s when she heard over an employee's radio that a fire had actually broken out on the second floor. The employees headed to the exits just as they had practiced. What tripped the system this time? Did someone accidentally nudge the sprinklers? They just had a fire drill last week, Jennifer Butler thought. ![]() ![]() When fire alarms at a Walmart fulfillment center in Plainfield began to blare Wednesday, employees inside the mammoth facility looked at each other in confusion and some worry. ![]() ET: This story has been updated with comment from police.Watch Video: Walmart Distribution Center catches fire in Plainfield However, WXIA reported that fires were set at several other Walmart stores as per the TikTok "challenge." Newsweek reached out to Peachtree City Police Department and Walmart's media office for comment.Įarlier this year, a fire broke out inside a Walmart store in North Carolina, according to a TikTok video showing an aisle of paper towels ablaze.Ī TikTok user, who claimed to be a Walmart employee, said that two children allegedly set a row of Bounty paper towels on fire with a lighter, causing damages that totaled over $10,000.Īnother TikTok user, Geordyn Ader, who goes by told Newsweek that the fire might have been caused by a person who allegedly tried to follow a TikTok "trend" in which people set random items on fire in Walmart.Īuthorities didn't confirm whether the Walmart fire in Peachtree City is related to the trend. The number of shoppers inside the store at the time was not available. No details were revealed about whether the incident was an organized activity, but authorities are investigating. No one was seriously injured as a result of the fire, but three officers at the scene were transferred to a hospital after being overpowered by the smoke after yelling for people at the store to evacuate.ĭamage to the store included the interior and roof, and no details were available about when it will reopen, according to WAGA. Mom Sues Walmart After 6-Year-Old Died in The Parking Lot.Walmart Shooting Inside Store Leaves One Dead in Ohio-Police.Walmart Store Engulfed by Flames, Officers Injured Getting People Out."The decision was made to back out, and the incident commander made the decision to go defensive and fight the fire from outside the building." "While fighting the fire with a large amount of water, they reported the structural members from the roof began to collapse on them," Harbin said of the incident, according to WAGA. They arrived after a rack of products was set on fire and eventually reached the roof. ![]() Multiple fire departments worked together to put down the fire, including Peachtree City, Coweta County, Fayetteville and Fayette County. "A building like this has a large fire load, fire load meaning the materials stored inside the building," Peachtree City Fire Department Assistant Chief Wilbur Harbin said, according to WAGA. August 25, local news station WAGA reported. Sprinklers went off, but they quickly became ineffective in putting out the fire, according to firefighters, who extinguished the fire at about 4 a.m. A 14-year-old was arrested in an alleged arson in connection with last week's blaze at a Walmart store in Peachtree City, Georgia, according to police. ![]()
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