My coworkers and I were sitting in the office on a Thursday when the sprinkler unit abruptly started running.
There was no alarm for a fire and usually the alarm rings and it has to go off for a few minutes before the water sprinkler proposal comes on.
The boss came out of his office and he was wet as 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 we had available to cover our office equipment and so I put the monitor and keyboard underneath the iPad desk. I didn’t guess that both of us would have a flood, so I figured that stuff was safe under the desk instead of on top of it. The people I was with and I needed to contact an emergency commercial plumbing repair company very fast. The office manager came out of his office and he told all of us to go home early for the afternoon. He then 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, everyone 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 carpet wasn’t saturated either. The emergency plumbing repair company must have worked very fast and diligently to repair the sprinkler problem before everything in the office was a wet mess.