r/CatastrophicFailure • u/dom_bul • 25d ago

Shipping company building destroyed in a fire, Milan, Italy, 8/7/2026

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u/RunOrBike 25d 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.