Over the summer, I was shopping a local grocery store and a car parked in the lot caught fire. It was just sitting there, unattended, not leaking, not hit by another car, no one smoking anything nearby... It just caught fire. This car was parked very close to the entrance of the store--in handicapped parking, iirc--so the employees were freaking out, especially as the grocery store was filling with its noxious fumes. I'm in the store trying to get my service department visits in, as well as assess multiple employees on the sales floor, and there is literally no one to be found because they're outside watching the carnage.
In the meantime, the lone employee at Customer Service keeps trying to track down the person who car belongs to, as well as anyone parked near it, so that the damage is minimized. It takes a whole *30 minutes* to find the car's owner, at which point the fire department has already controlled the fire and has towed the other cars parked nearby. How many people drive a lavender-colored Toyota?
That was a fun report to write! "Could only assess one employee because of fire."
A few weeks later, the same thing happens at another store in the same chain during a shop, only no one reacted. I guess this is because the fire happened at the store's gas station, not in the parking lot itself.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/22/2018 04:18AM by fujikochan.