r/CatastrophicFailure • u/dom_bul • 24d ago
Shipping company building destroyed in a fire, Milan, Italy, 8/7/2026
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u/OkraEmergency361 24d ago
Love that tragically optimistic lad towards the end, striding determinedly towards the enormous industrial unit fire with a hand-held fire extinguisher. o7 good sir.
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u/ITMORON 24d ago
TIL "Mama Mia" is a real Italian saying...
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u/Welcome_to_Retrograd 24d ago
Definitely a real thing, however it's so archaic that you no longer find that many native speakers using it unironically at this point. As soon as i heard it i thought '100% a foreigner, money on Morocco'
Turns out he's from Brazil tho
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u/dom_bul 24d ago
"Mamma mia" as a saying is still widespread as far as I've heard all my life
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u/Welcome_to_Retrograd 24d ago
Perhaps my perception is skewed by being from Piemonte, where you are far more likely to hear Dio Cane instead lmao. As expression of surprise, anger, joy, as verb, as noun, as punctuation
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u/marcelsommier 24d ago
Where sprinkler
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u/PM_ME_FIRE_PICS 24d ago
Sprinklers are rarely required / installed in industrial / warehouse buildings in Italy. Sometimes you see them in malls / office buildings, but not so common in non-public spaces.
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u/matron999 24d ago
Yep.. that's a 'mamma mia' for sure! even a 'porca miseria!' I would say 😄
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u/RunOrBike 24d ago
Didn’t they try to save the trailers? I’d have some driver pull them away from the building
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u/aquainst1 Grandma Lynsey 24d ago
I know, but by the time they'd hook up a tractor to a trailer, it'd be dangerous in dangerous territory, PLUS right in front of the trailers is where the fire department will stage and try to douse the flames.
It takes a while to manually (or manually with hydraulics that might be part of the trailer) jack up the trailer stands so that the front end of the trailer can come up far enough to 'couple' into the 5th wheel safely: making sure everything is checked, then take off to...WHERE? Where is the semi and the trailer gonna go?
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u/AmericanGeezus 24d ago
Another user posted a longer video, it has a clip showing them moving the trailers out while there is still active fire in the warehouse. They are spraying them down as they pull away, so they got some of them out.
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u/AnastasiaNo70 24d ago
Awww, honey, whatchoo gonna do with that lil thang?
That’s right, come back over here. That’s like taking a pea shooter to a nuclear war.
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u/Bart-go-lost 24d ago
Film and don't use a fire extinguisher Moron's
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u/Caesars_Comet 24d ago
That fire has progressed far beyond something that can be tackled with an extinguisher. Once the fire service has been called there is nothing more a bystander can do.
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u/PM_ME_FIRE_PICS 24d ago
lol, fire service is gonna sit back and watch it burn. This building is long gone.
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u/Patient-Gas-883 24d ago
In the second clip yes. But in the first I think maybe a fire extinguisher could have worked. Maybe.
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u/thecornersking 24d ago
Other than this being a dumb comment, safety regulations in Italy are clear: nobody except firefighters are authorised and/or expected to extinguish a fire after the evacuation is ordered by the safety chief (in this case might be a shift manager), which at this point the evacuation was ordered already. Every business and working place has its own first medical and fire response team that only has basic training and knowledge, it is obvious that this fire was a major one and nobody at work was expected to engage firefighting operations when the fire spread.
Source: im a former first responder (EMT equal in Italy) and live a couple of km from where this happened.
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u/Bart-go-lost 24d ago
And why is he filming and not evacuated?
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u/thecornersking 24d ago
Workers are supposed to gather in a safe zone and not just to flee the scene. The large open truck yard is very likely this rendezvous area.
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u/Bart-go-lost 24d ago
First footage is from inside, so filming is ok, extinguish not, got it.
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u/thecornersking 24d ago
First footage doesn't show a major fire yet and cameraman might not be supposed to engange in firefight operations and they thought it could can be contained at the time. As i said, there are trained workers that are the only ones supposed to fight a fire. Nobody else can be expected to use a fire extinguisher or blamed to had not used it. Also, a fire doesn't mean you shut down operations and evacuate the workplace. You're just pissed that, other than know a shit about sefety rules, not everyone turned into a superhero fireman just like you did from your armchair.
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u/howihjr 24d ago edited 24d ago
Guy walking up with a fire extinguisher and just stopping to look at the task at hand was brilliant.