Up in Smoke

A very disappointing event unfolded yesterday in the form of a massive warehouse fire at Wines Central in Vallejo, California. Here are a couple of different takes on the situation:

Warehouse fire destroys huge wine collection

and

Millions in wine threatened in massive blaze

What's most curious are these two statements. From the first article:

"Wines Central was billed on its Web site as having "state-of-the-art" fire monitoring systems..."

and from the second:

"The building has no sprinkler system."

Hmmm.