[5312] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: generators, etc....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick J. Chicas)
Mon Oct 14 22:23:40 1996
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 16:13:43 -1000 (HST)
From: "Patrick J. Chicas" <pjc@off-road.com>
To: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
cc: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19961013114530.0069fe84@lint.cisco.com>
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
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