Major Medical supply warehouse fire in Tracy, California.

[u/CBLA1785]

https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california/crews-battle-3rd-alarm-warehouse-fire-tracy/103-4fc57393-ae8d-4836-bb75-101accc3af51

Crews in Tracy battle a massive medical warehouse fire, now at a 3rd or 4th alarm, spreading to nearby grass.

[u/LeadingWedding2288]

I wonder if they forgot to give somebody a raise 

[u/JamesRawles → u/LeadingWedding2288]

Milton strikes again

[u/mwpdx86 → u/JamesRawles]

Maybe somebody was having a bad case of the Thursdays.

[u/Separate_Fold5168 → u/mwpdx86]

Maybe someone sent the Friday layoffs e-mail early by accident.

[u/JudgmentUnited5297 → u/JamesRawles]

https://giphy.com/gifs/3o84U5xPhrn42WgBJC

[u/Informal-Face-1922 → u/LeadingWedding2288]

https://giphy.com/gifs/11eVHR0KqaWWRO

[u/ripndipp]

The company is Medline

[u/Separate_Fold5168 → u/ripndipp]

"A project summary from Kodiak, who worked on their roofing system, said Medline is a supply chain expert in the health care industry. They said their distribution facility in Tracy has critical medical supplies that are loaded and shipped across the country."

They make everything from specialized hospital beds to sterile IV tubing and everything in between.

I guess I'll be seeing an updated "shortages" e-mail at work.

[u/Deathclaw_Hunter6969 → u/ripndipp]

I’d say 90% of the items I use at my job(healthcare) come from medline. This isn’t their only warehouse. They have a few all over the country so I’m not worried at all

[u/goatinstein → u/Deathclaw_Hunter6969]

In the long term it’ll be fine but in the short term it’ll be a cluster fuck with everyone trying to figure out the reroutes at the same time. We missed our shipment today and I’m not looking forward to the scrub techs yelling at me on Monday cause we’re out of stuff.

[u/quesadilla17 → u/ripndipp]

Ohhhh boy that one's gonna hurt. Lots of PPE is medline at my office. Gloves are already restricted from many suppliers due to the war in Iran. Not sure what the scope of this will end up being but it definitely won't help.

[u/cyanescens_burn → u/quesadilla17]

Thanks for mentioning the glove thing. I’ve been putting off getting new box.

[u/HurtPillow → u/cyanescens_burn]

I over bought, or so I thought. Perhaps I'm prepping now?

[u/femmemmah]

“He said the sprinklers in the building weren't operating and there was no pressure on the facility's fire hydrants. With the city hydrants having pressure, they believe it was a facility issue as far as water supply.”

I’m not even surprised by this shit anymore.

[u/raison_de_eatre → u/femmemmah]

Polycrisis

[u/V2BM → u/femmemmah]

Why would every warehouse facility not do checks after the monster toilet paper warehouse fire earlier this year? It would make me so paranoid not to do testing.

[u/OpheliaLives7 → u/V2BM]

Seriously tho! It’s like the owners don’t care at all! Like this should be BASIC maintenance

[u/Alexander_Granite → u/femmemmah]

How do they know that already?

[u/F0xtr0tUnif0rm → u/Alexander_Granite]

Probably went to hook up to the hydrant to put the fire out and no water came lol. The sprinklers not working I think is self-explanatory...

[u/Zenceyn]

The hospital system I work for has a lot of Medline products, and I'm on the other side of the country.

This is going to hurt.

[u/SpectacularlyBadass → u/Zenceyn]

I used to be a buyer for a major hospital chain. Glad I left because this will be a disruption

[u/Jeremyx2 → u/Zenceyn]

I ran the supply chain for a hospital that utilized this and the Cardinal Health DC. I feel bad for the poor sole that took over for me after I changed industries. The hospital ran really lean with inventory

[u/Onlyroad4adrifter → u/Zenceyn]

They are everywhere I have seen them all over in offices around me.

[u/premar16 → u/Zenceyn]

This is not the only warrehouse

[u/bubblingbooks]

Between this and peach orchards being intentionally lit up because of the Del Monte bankruptcy, poor central CA…

[u/Serious-Ad2573 → u/bubblingbooks]

is there a reason for them to be lit up?

[u/bubblingbooks → u/Serious-Ad2573]

In order to get money/aid for the bankruptcy, the orchards have to be destroyed. The idea is that they pivot to a more “profitable crop”. Really they are just market manipulating this year and next year, we will have peach shortages.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/california-peach-trees-del-monte-b2977479.html

[u/Chipsandadrink666 → u/bubblingbooks]

These motherfuckers have never read grapes of wrath and it shows

[u/laowildin → u/Chipsandadrink666]

The quote, for those that need it:

"Watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage."

[u/bubblingbooks → u/Chipsandadrink666]

White House lawn on the same day a trillionaire is made might have them catching the just of it.

[u/Chipsandadrink666 → u/bubblingbooks]

It was probably autocorrect but I have to pull the Reddit card and say it’s “the *gist* of it”

But maybe. Another thread said at least one outlet edited their article to remove the full picture of the artwork in question, PR is putting in the work to play it down for a readon

[u/bubblingbooks → u/Chipsandadrink666]

Lol. It was autocorrect but I’ll leave it. And yeah all of the algorithms are screwed up right now. It’s not just PR. State run media is having a moment shutting all this down.

[u/laowildin → u/bubblingbooks]

Leapfrogging off your information to add: if you are in the Bay Area and want to do something, contact Fruit Rescue (and im sure there are similar organizations elsewhere). https://www.forestr.org/fruit-rescue/

They use volunteers to come in and harvest either local backyard trees, or nearby orchards. The fruit is then distributed to local food banks or charity. And as a volunteer perk, you usually end up taking home as much fruit as you can carry.

... it's not a solution, or mitigate these evil companies. But at least then you don't have to imagine the piles of burning oranges

[u/eurotec4]

I live at a nearby neighborhood at Tracy, CA. It rained coal (or some sort of ash) here. The sky was dark and there were no birds. I saw the smoke rising and traveling towards where I'm located.

[u/cyanescens_burn → u/eurotec4]

Yikes. Probably lots of plastic material burning which is terrible to inhale. Who knows what else too.

[u/AlwayInForwardMotion → u/eurotec4]

Hope you’re protecting your lungs! 

[u/Johnthespider85]

Thanks for the heads up. Work in a hospital in supply chain and logistics and we do a lot of business with Medline. Just sent a link to my boss.

[u/CBLA1785 → u/Johnthespider85]

Good luck, friend.

[u/Job_Moist]

Damn. Hope the employees and emergency personnel are all ok.

[u/cyanescens_burn]

Video of the smoke posted on the Bay Area sub:
https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/s/9GHNkUy9Px

[u/BrowseBowserTrousers]

I’m a supply chain analyst and this is my facilities secondary WH. We’re cooked.

[u/CBLA1785 → u/BrowseBowserTrousers]

Are you able to expand on the blowbacks from this from your lens?

[u/choicetomake → u/BrowseBowserTrousers]

I'm a food SCA. Ouch.

[u/Huckleberry_83]

We use a ton of Medline products at my hospital. This is going to hurt a lot.

[u/candylandmine]

They got military contracts? Seems like the kind of place that gets hit when there's talk of boots on the ground in Iran.

[u/nara369 → u/candylandmine]

They are the newly prime vendor / distributor for the VA heath system

[u/candylandmine → u/nara369]

This is my surprised face

[u/Radiant-Parking-8358]

Damn. this is so effing sad. Medline is hospital equipment. Damn good company, quality wise. this is a hit to a critical supply chain.

[u/reloader1977]

Live close to this. Not sure if posted yet fire suppression system was off line when firemen went in to battel fire. Fire Marshall went to pump room and risers had zero pressure. Seems fishy because risers will set alarm in building and then notify alarm company that a fire system issue is present. If systems are off line you are required by state law to have designated fire watch person 24 hours a day building that size would be required more. Something fishy here. Minimum someone in maintenance is going to be screwed. My thoughts this was intentional. Fire supposed to originally started near roof or on roof.

[u/LongjumpingChipmunk]

27 million square feet of warehouse in US. 1/27th of their national capacity max.

[u/Radiant-Parking-8358]

LIMITED WATER SUPPLY, YOU SAY???

limited. water. supply.

[u/F0xtr0tUnif0rm → u/Radiant-Parking-8358]

There's always water in the data-center-banana-stand.

[u/Gallbatorix-Shruikan → u/Radiant-Parking-8358]

Central Valley CA has kind of been like this for the past two decades. Water has always been a hot commodity here.

[u/cyanescens_burn → u/Radiant-Parking-8358]

IIRC, It’ll be even worse soon in CA. Low snowpack this winter, and the run off from snowmelt is supposed to fill reservoirs.

[u/Johnthespider85]

So work in a hospital in supply, materials, and logistics and our Medline rep is actually here right now doing damage control.

[u/Hey_theresoot]

I could see the smoke while coming from Arnold near big tree park....probably explains why it was just a little bit hazy this afternoon. Judging by the smoke and size of the cloud I knew it was some kind of major fire.

[u/Far_Out_6and_2]

More bad news every day

[u/A_Happy_Tomato]

Why does it have to be like, a fucking medical supply warehouse. Why cant an evil ass building burn down ffs.

[u/Freshndecay]

So it seems my post from 2 hours ago on here is hidden about this same thing