Print shop in AZ exploded
(www.qnotables.com)
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Andthe one in Rochester NY burned to the ground
Yes!!!
They were printing on flash paper 🤣
They (FD) think it maybe was a gas leak in the parking lot, yet the injured suffered "propane flash" burns from inside the building.
And propane burns? One says they blacked out, yet they walked out of the building... ?
I've worked in large print shops I've never seen propane tanks there.
Is it possible there was a propane powered forklift in the building?
If there was a forklift chances are 99.9% it was propane. And the owners probably had a rack of spare tanks.
Paper dust is highly flammable ... electric fork trucks are a thing
Yes, every kind of dust can be explosive, even, although it doesn't seem there would be that much it might have contributed. How did the young men get "propane flash burns"? Not from Bic lighters.
Yes. At a company I used to work at - all the people in the warehouse would have to climb up into the racks and clean/dust off all the shelves and boxes.
I'd pass through to get a smoke... it was odd to see people in PPE climbing all over.
I mean that would be the response at my house if a snake was seen inside...lol... but that seemed excessive to me at work. 😂
It's possible...
Usually around paper and other combustibles they aren't allowed
If the building is built on a cement slab (most strip mall and factories are), then all electrical and gas must be ran above ground. If a machine or implement requires gas and it is located in the center of the building, then it will require a gas line to be ran overhead.
In my area we have natural gas, but rural areas around me have propane. Not sure what is the fuel of choice where this happened.
I previously worked in the propane industry doing safety inspections. I currently work in the manufacturing industry as a Environmental Health and Safety dude. Gas lines are not inspected as often as I think they should.
Thanks for the insight. 👍
There is no way this printing company printed the ballots.
They could be partnered with a print and mail type printing company, but the printers I see are the ones you use to make posters and banners. I've seen a lot of printers.
High volume printers have bins and hoppers to handle volume. A continuous form printer's paper is about 4 feet tall. Kind of hard to miss, and you wouldn't want one rolling over you. I am not seeing any of that.
You need to run thousands of sheets, and get the best quality, you go with a print and mail company. This company prints posters.
Yes. And even if it were Runbeck, the company that did print ballots, so what? The ballots in question are all locked up as evidence many miles away.
With coding on them that identifies the printer/copier that made them.
It's definitely a distraction. Maybe a deliberate one?
They do think we are complete idiots? That's yet another error on their part.
Unless there really are the routers or print servers in the building. You wouldn't see that on the website photos though, but centralized resources would only happen if you were part of a larger printer group.
There are no routers or print servers connected in any way to voting! For heaven's sake, find out what routers and servers are and do. I have a router and a workstation capable of being a server on my desk and so does every computer wonk I know. Does it mean we are all connected to Maricopa County Elections office? It was an accident that almost killed 4 people and emptied out the rest of the mall where the print company was located. Who is supposed to be distracted? It's a blip on the news this morning. Eventually there will be a followup report which will be even less of a blip. Accidents happen in a city of 4 million all the time.
Where I work (in print and mail), none of the processing servers are held in house. I do have one on my desk, but that's a backup. ALL of our images are archived in some form on a couple of the servers we use. We also do bulk document hosting, so that stuff is all searchable on the servers that have an internet facing setup. I'm more of a programmer than network guy, so I know all the programs and content.
We used to have other companies hold the servers behind a vpn firewall in some server closet (small room with AC). That's what I am referring to.
That in mind, is it possible there was something there of note? Yes. Is it likely? Absolutely not. I am quite sure they didn't print ballots there. They don't have the resources on the floor for that kind of thing.
If the story is a distraction, it is because it literally is a nothing burger.
It was a small family shop. You can look at their site and see what they have and do. https://platinumprintingaz.com/about/ Don't see where they would need lots of outsourced servers. I feel very sad for them, now that work is all for nothing. 4 young men are in bad shape with burns.
I am not in disagreement here. I don't think the place had anything to do with the elections/ballots at all. There's absolutely no reason to house servers there to begin with. I was giving the only possible reason I could think of where it might have been related, but it's blatantly OBVIOUS that it's not.
So, I agree, it was just an accident. The newsworthiness of it is more due to location than anything. Nothing to see here related to Q.
Maybe they were printing fake ballots...
Not with those printers they aren't. It's overkill to use those and they are way too slow.
Maybe if they had copiers, but I didn't see those.
I agree, total over kill... but they were panicking and we know "these people are stupid"
Plus we don't know ALL the equipment that was there... This print shop (along with the one in NY) were destroyed for a reason.
I hope someone can look into all deliveries into those locations for the past few years...and outgoing stuff too.
Now what a coincidence...eh?🐸
ahhh the place that printed the ballots lol
A print shop in NY had a large disastrous fire that took out multiple buildings. They too printed ballots for the 2020 election.
The owner lives in one of the grandest mansion's on a street of mansions close by
Interesting stuff....
No they didn't.
Were the routers in there?
Routers are computer attached boxes. This had nothing to do with ballots or the election.
Thanks OP, been looking for a notable aggregator since last one disappeared. Nice to be able to keep up on what happens on 8k without having to wade through the span and noise.
It's great. I check it everyday:)
Or Cohencidence