San Jose Home Depot fire raises questions about store’s sprinkler and alarm systems
Two days after a rapidly-moving fireof a South San Jose Home Depot, leveling the giant home improvement store, critical questions remain unanswered about what caused such a catastrophic blaze — and how well the store’s fire suppression systems were working when the flames broke out.
“The roof is doing its job, unfortunately, even in the state that it is in, which is creating a blanket over the debris underneath,” Ray said. “We’d like to get in there to more aggressively tackle some of the smoldering fires, but we want to make sure we’re not compromising the scene, so we’re fighting it from a more difficult vantage point right now.”
“You could see through the doors, the fire falling from the ceiling — embers and big chunks of flaming red coming down,” he said, adding that they never saw any sprinklers go off. “If you were in the back of the store and for some reason waited until the alarm went off, it would’ve been dangerous or maybe they wouldn’t have made it out.”
“It’s a terrible loss,” Klein said. “We’ll be eager, hopefully, to see that this will be rebuilt and get back to all of the benefits — maybe even bigger and better.” Sherrie Butts, 59, who lives behind the Home Depot store and runs a daycare business out of her home, smelled smoke Saturday. Butts — who lives with her 77-year-old mother and walks with a cane — said their neighbors helped them evacuate.
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