Not sure if this is the right subreddit or not.
I work as a roaster where my job role is to operate a large drum roaster that takes in a ton of product at a time to roast, think of a coffee roaster but scaled up in size. The roaster is about 2 stories high and 25 square meters. We were roasting a product in their today and going by our company SOPs for the product. We had just started the last step in the process, where it is a cooling step. We had started to cool it down and all was well until our power went out due to the weather affecting powerlines in the area. Our boss doesn't have a generator incase of a power outage issue, so we were out of power with a product that was very hot and close to it's combustion point, in a drum roaster that was still heating it up.
Eventually, we had a fire start in the drum roaster. This isn't a problem because we have dealt with fires before in the drum roaster and we know the procedure for dealing with this. Usually it is something one person can deal with because the drum roaster is still rotating which keeps product moving with cooling being distributed. However because we lost power, we had no way of cooking the product evenly, and so it sat heaped on the bottom of the roaster where hot spots would have developed that eventually caught fire. I am not sure why my coworker just didn't flood the product with the suppression system and just call it a loss. But we eventually had an explosion which blew open a few air vents, and shot burning product out of the roaster. At this point, we had a lot of smoke coming out of the roaster and I felt that it had become a much more serious issue that was now out of skill set and control. So we ended up calling the fire services to help us get it under control and get the fires stopped before anything worse happens. They got there fairly quickly and we were able to put it out before anything got worse.
But right now, I am sitting here and thinking what if my boss decides to do something like fire myself or the coworker because they think we had done something that he wouldn't had wanted us to do like call fire services rather than try to handle it ourselves? I don't mind this scenario because I could always go find a new job elsewhere that is probably less dangerous and dirty. Right now, I am glad that everyone is okay but I am also upset that we had no way of mitigating this scenario, I am not sure why we didn't flood the roaster to try and cool it that way but oh well.