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Re: generators, etc....
From: "Patrick J. Chicas" <pjc () off-road com>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 16:13:43 -1000 (HST)
On Sun, 13 Oct 1996, Paul Ferguson wrote: Greetings
Here's what the latest issue of RISKS Digest [18.52] had to say. - paul [snip] Two rats crawled through an underground cable conduit into a cabinet of power switching gear adjacent to the Stanford University cogeneration plant, and caused an explosion that cut off power to the Stanford area beginning around 7:30pm on Thursday evening, 10 Oct 1996, and continuing until 3:30pm Friday afternoon.
A universal fire code requires duct block and/or conduit grommets in every vault or outside relay box entrance. Worse than the rats for humans are the toxic fumes from burning cable insulation. So, it seems that Stanford had a fire hazard and BBN didn't have backup power to deal with anything more than a 2-3 hour outage. Regards Patrick J. Chicas Email: pjc () unix off-road com URL: http://www.Off-Road.com -------------------------------- The Off-Road Center of The 'Net! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Current thread:
- Re: generators, etc...., (continued)
- Re: generators, etc.... Michael Dillon (Oct 12)
- Re: generators, etc.... Curtis Villamizar (Oct 14)
- Re: generators, etc.... David J. Schmidt (Oct 13)
- Re: generators, etc.... Nathan Stratton (Oct 13)
- Re: generators, etc.... Jeremy Porter (Oct 14)
- Re: generators, etc.... Patrick J. Chicas (Oct 14)
- Re: generators, etc.... Alan Hannan (Oct 12)
- Re: generators, etc.... Patrick J. Chicas (Oct 14)
- Re: generators, etc.... Michael Dillon (Oct 14)
- Re: generators, etc.... Curtis Villamizar (Oct 18)