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WWE LOCKER ROOM FLOODS LAST NIGHT (YES, REALLY)

By Mike Johnson on 2012-11-28 14:25:18
A ton of WWE personalities had their personal effects and clothing soaked to the bone when the sprinkler system at the CenturyLink Center in Bossier City, LA was somehow set off as the company was filming a pre-taped segment for Smackdown.

Fire alarms and sprinklers immediately went off at full force, dousing everyone in the room, which led to a mad scramble in the dark as the fire prevention system shut down all electricity in the immediate area. So, staffers and wrestlers were scrambling through a flooded room in the dark, trying to remove everything of importance as the sprinklers kept spraying. It was described to me as something out of a bad comedy film with people slipping and getting completely soaked.

Literally the entire taping process (they were finishing up Main Event and were getting ready to shoot Smackdown) stopped as the company attempted to keep the surge of water from running out of the room and into other backstage areas. Obviously, water damage to WWE's production equipment during a taping as it was ongoing would have been disastrous on all levels.

It was seen as such a serious issue that Triple H arrived on the scene to direct traffic as the company tried to stop the water from reaching other areas of the building.

There were a lot of people thankful that the fire alarms had only caused the sprinkler system to go off in the one room and not a larger portion of the Arena, which may have caused the evacuation of the live audience by the local fire Marshall. Again, that would have been disastrous for the taping.

The belief is that the heat from lights being used for the pre-tape set off the sensors in the room and that led to the flooding.

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