West Gate Tunnel closed due to sprinkler false alarm triggered by hot weather

Posted by 007MaxZorin

12 Comments

  1. -_-Edit_Deleted-_- on

    Good to know i it works.

    Now just to tune it correctly so it doesnt cause this drama again.

  2. Time_Career4708 on

    Maybe the tolls aren’t high enough to pay for a good quality sprinkler system  

  3. Deep_Abrocoma6426 on

    This is a standard hazard when building infrastructure in Australia, and as someone said earlier, good to see the systems kick in and work.

    But I must admit it so strange to see Liberal supporters jeering and cheering when stuff like this happens. We need the infrastructure, and we use the infrastructure – it’s uncomfortable to see the 3AW boomers praying it falls apart. So weird.

  4. My apartment building, built in the last 5 years, suffered tonnes of these issues in the first 2 years, due to a dodgy batch of sprinkler heads. They would go off randomly when the outside temperature was too high. We had around 8 false calls to FSV in 2 years

    We had to get all of them in the common areas replaced as part of the building defect process.

  5. Reminds me of the train track warping and Ferris wheel metal incidents – Melbourne gets hot, do they not plan for this shit? Considering it’ll wreck your steel I imagine it’d be kind of important to cater for the 40 degree days??

  6. CardiologistNo5561 on

    Cheers for the heads up. I’ll now know where I will be going to get a free cool down when the weather tops 40’c.

  7. seek_n_findau on

    Sorry guys, I’ll remove this line of code. If temperature in tunnel > 40c = fire = sprinkler on please. 😂