Nah, looks like they lit a tire fire inside the cooling tower or something. Maybe as some kind of distraction? It’s hard to understand why they would do that. It shouldn’t really damage the cooling tower, and the cooling tower isn’t the part to be worried about. It’s possible it was being used as storage and saboteurs or special forces lit it on fire.
Their derangement grows deeper as the cognitive dissonance builds. It’s like a giant cult at this point. They’ll snap at some point and go full nazi, just watch.