My coworkers and I were resting in the office on a Tuesday when the sprinkler system suddenly started running.
There was no alarm for a fire as usually the alarm rings and it has to go off for two or three hours before the water sprinkler system comes on.
The boss came out of her office and she was wet as a spring well. The sprinklers were spraying water everywhere and it was getting on all of the electronics and all of our personal items. The boss asked us to use anything that we had available to cover our office equipment and I put my monitor and keyboard underneath the laptop desk. I didn’t know that we all would have a flood, so I figured that stuff was safe under the desk instead of on top of it. We needed to contact an emergency commercial plumbing contractor for maintenance as fast as possible. The office manager came out of his office and he told all of us to go to the lake house early for the day. The office manager contacted an emergency plumbing service, but they weren’t going to be able to shut off the sprinklers until the fire marshal arrived. The next day, all the people came back to the office and things seemed to be normal. Other than some damp and wet papers and files, the office looked exactly like it did the previous day. The sprinklers must not have been running for much longer after both of us left, because the big rug wasn’t saturated too badly either. The emergency plumbing maintenance worker must have worked really fast and diligently to maintain and correct the sprinkler problem before everything in the office was a wet mess.