[BC] KOMO, Seattle building fire

[Charles Ring]

Chris Gebhardt wrote:
> AP and others reporting building fire at Fisher Plaza in Seattle last 
> night around 11pm local time.
> http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009415646_webfisherplaza04.html
>
> Apparently, affected stations are running from backup facilities.
>
> Not so lucky would be any datacenter customers.   According to what I 
> have found the emergency generators were "fried" because they got 
> sprayed by fire sprinklers.   If that's true, that's a pretty 
> hair-brained setup.
>   

I wonder if the sprinklers were near the generators because they were 
_required_ by an unthinking zero-tolerance enforcement of codes?