Restaurant Damage in Northern California Due to Crank Callers

July 28, 2016

Several restaurants in Northern California are damaged after suspected prank callers tricked workers into testing their fire suppression system.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported that Elk Grove officials say three such incidents were reported to the Cosumnes Fire Department Monday evening. Restaurant staff at Five Guys, Wendy’s and Panera Bread received calls asking them to test their fire suppression system.

Staff members at Five Guys and Wendy’s activated their systems, which discharged a suppression agent that made a mess and forced the restaurants to close for the night.

cellphone-cancerThe manager at Panera declined to activate the system.

Investigators are trying to identify the callers.

Topics California

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  • July 29, 2016 at 11:50 am
    Fair Playing Field says:
    Thanks for your responses, ProductPro and Mark B.
  • July 28, 2016 at 5:01 pm
    Agent says:
    Mark, why would a restaurant test their system with food under the hood? Would it make sense to have everything removed? How about putting a sheet of plastic down before hit... read more
  • July 28, 2016 at 2:53 pm
    louie says:
    how do you even make a crank call nowadays? Doesn't pretty much every phone have Caller ID?

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