We have shown many photos in the past of deceptive buildings. We truly believe they all hold a valuable teaching point regardless if they are located in your area or not. The idea is to spark your curiosity to evaluate all of the buildings in your response area. Perhaps more importantly when evaluating buildings and building construction, you should always suspect that what you are looking at my not be the case. Engineer Steven Negedly from Orlando Engine 9 sent in some more photos that prove this point. These pictures are taken at the headquarters building for a local mass-transit bus company. The business type alone should have you on the look-out for something out of the ordinary, and the vent grills in place of some of the windows should be the dead giveaway. Well the backside of that “structure” reveals the truth, it’s simply a facade that contains the fuel tanks (biodiesel, diesel, and gasoline.) Keep your eyes open, know your area, and always expect the unexpected.
Wow, great find, good to know a simple 360 would solve this, or an approach from the right angle. But at o’ dark thirty in the morning, might catch someone off guard.
“We truly believe they all hold a valuable teaching point regardless if they are located in your area or not.”
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You guys are absolutely right!!!!! This building isn’t in my area.
I’ll open up the “D” side.
Make that “C”, doh!
Vent Grills . . Anything to do with Bear Grylls??
Only in the way they both look real, but are somewhat fake 🙂
HAHAHA. Well played Nate. Well played.
Wow, at two AM that would definitely deceive me!
More people need to learn to use all the tools out there. Your site is a daily read in my queue!
I only have one thing to say 360 deg
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Knowing your area and doing a good 360 has always been a good practice but even more so in recent years. Many jurisdictions are now requiring that companies “hide” things that they deem “unsightly”, which provides for a nicer loooking area but making our job that much tougher. The same thing goes for facades. Just because it looks like “Old Chicago Brick” doesn’t mean it is. If it is a newer building it could just as easily be a coated styrofoam so it would match the historical buildings in the area.
The only good thing about working in California is that this “building” would have Haz Placards in plain view. At 3 a.m. this would be a big help. I feel for the newbies that roll up on this bomb in the making!
This goes to show ya what unknown may lay before you… Stay alert, stay smart, and stay safe.