I would assume that you can’t, for safety regulations designed for pretty much this exact scenario.
There … essentially must have been an emergency shut off and unlock system outside of the oven, if not inside the oven as well.
Either the emergency system borked out and failed due to some kind of hardware/maintenance failure or software bug…
…Or the employees were so poorly trained they could not figure out how to use it.
Given some quotes from the police calls I’ve been able to find… it seems like somehow the entire staff of this Walmart had no clue how to engage an emergency shutdown.
Yeah … I … as far as I can see, no good explanation for that either.
If you’re too incompetent to hit the big red EMERGENCY STOP button, or said button is broken or hidden behind a series of button presses but oops we forgot the override code…
Get a goddamned fireaxe and start wailing away at the glass.
I really don’t get it.
I would have also added:
Surely someone else can throw every breaker in the god-damned building to cut off the power source to the oven if you’ve determined that somehow all the emergency halt inputs don’t work…
…but they are apparently all collectively too incompetent to have that thought occur to them if they really did just stand around the door and cry.
Its fucking bonkers.
I’m not super familiar with Canadian Law, but if this happened in the states… I really do not see how at least one person is not going to jail for negligent homicide or involuntary manslaughter.
It essentially has to be the case that either:
Someone on shift should have known what to in this situation and did not do it,
Or, the system borked out due to neglected or improperly done maintenance, or non conducted regular testing of the emergency stop system, which again has someone responsible for this.
This was at a Walmart. Hate to say it, but maybe fear of corporate played a part?
I don’t know what protocols the bakery staff would follow for emergencies, but given all the stories about employees facing liability for interacting with shoplifters, I wonder how much fear of liability lead to inaction here.
Really tragic shit all around.
