Seven situations your cameras already see, and an inspector finds once a year
In 2025 the French State inspected 279 warehouses in the Lyon region for fire risk: 80% had non-conformities. Most of them are visible on the cameras already installed.
Posts about fire
Pallets against the wall: the fires that start outside, and the camera nobody gave a task to
Some warehouse fires start outside, in waste or pallets stored against the building. The façade camera has been watching it for days. It just needs to be asked the question.
The battery charging area: what a camera should check there
A faulty connector, cardboard against the charger, a rack too close. The charging area is one of the best-documented fire origins in a warehouse, and one of the easiest to watch.
Viviez, 2024: the cause of the warehouse fire was on the site's own recordings
Investigators found the origin of a warehouse fire on the site's own cameras, fifteen months later. The cameras saw it; nobody was watching.