Are Workers Lighting Warehouses on Fire?
It Could Happen Here
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🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Garrison investigates viral claims that a spree of warehouse fires across the country have been started by underpaid workers.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.9 | Cool Zone Media. |
| 0:10.6 | This is It Could Happen here. |
| 0:13.1 | I'm Garrison Davis. |
| 0:14.9 | A revolution is igniting across America. |
| 0:18.8 | At least, according to viral posts on social media and TikTok videos with hundreds |
| 0:23.3 | of thousands of views, claiming that anywhere between three to six to nine warehouses have been |
| 0:29.8 | set on fire this past week for not paying their employees a living wage. |
| 0:35.7 | The revolution might be happy. |
| 0:37.1 | Got a warehouse fire in Ontario. |
| 0:38.6 | Warehouse fire in New York. |
| 0:40.0 | Warehouse fire in Bakersfield. |
| 0:41.6 | Amazon warehouse fire in Ohio. |
| 0:43.5 | So they set a mall on fire, too. |
| 0:45.4 | It hasn't just been factories at this point. |
| 0:47.3 | It's also malls. |
| 0:48.4 | It seems as though people have begun to eat the rich. |
| 0:54.7 | Workers of the world ignite. |
| 0:57.4 | Like most instances of viral misinformation, there is a kernel of truth to this story and one |
| 1:04.5 | worth focusing on, but through a massive game of cross-platform telephone, facts and causality get warped and misconstrued. |
| 1:14.6 | Selective reporting of similar but unrelated events can be used to assert a connection between |
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