A fire that drew out 110 firefighters and 19 trucks to a factory operated by Samsung Galaxy Note 7 battery supplier, Samsung SDI, was caused by discarded faulty batteries, the company has said. From a report:
A "minor fire" broke out Wednesday in a Samsung SDI plant in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin and had to be extinguished, according to local emergency services. The fire was contained to a part of the site used for waste processing, including faulty batteries. There were no casualties or significant impact on the operations of the plant, although the local fire department was called, said a Samsung SDI spokesperson. The Wuqing branch of the Tianjin fire department said on Sina Weibo that the "material that caught fire was lithium batteries inside the production workshops and some half-finished products."
Dell engineers relieved.
By jpellino
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2017-Feb-8 12:39
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Film at 11.
Discarded Headphone Jacks
By Oswald McWeany
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2017-Feb-8 12:39
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I guess you can't start a fire from disposing of Headphone jacks incorrectly.
Can there be anything more Funny?
By TheFakeTimCook
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2017-Feb-8 12:56
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The jokes just write themselves, don't they?
Methinks that Samsung. . .
By Salgak1
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2017-Feb-8 13:06
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. . .may have a new product line in the offing: Note7 Incendiary Grenades. MUCH better than Aperture Science Incendiary Lemons.
And 110 firefighters and 19 trucks is a **MINOR** fire ??
Man in Tree
By SeattleLawGuy
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2017-Feb-8 14:34
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Yes, that's one of several things going on here. A fire at the Samsung factory is *interesting*, so more first responders show up. Seattle had a man climb a tree downtown and they had dozens of people involved--but it's a guy in a tree occasionally throwing pine cones. People showed up because it was a diversion, not because they needed more people.
Second, responses to commercial properties tend to be somewhat faster and definitely more staffed than responses to individual homes. The potential for massive damage to inventory or danger to the public is usually significantly greater (especially in retail spaces). Something big like a Samsung factory might also bring substantial money into an area, and losing factories has a ripple effect in a community.
Third, if you hear you have a potential chemical fire at a factory and you don't know how big it is yet, you WANT to err on the side of caution and have all of the capability there that you need, and then some.
Fourth, if you had a Samsung factory in your country, mightn't you want to use it for espionage?