[92942] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: CO fire St. Johns Newfoundland
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Bulk)
Sat Oct 21 09:17:06 2006
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From: "Frank Bulk" <frnkblk@iname.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 08:15:46 -0500
In-Reply-To: <4539D1D9.2000304@beanfield.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Apparently it was a DC power cable:
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=16fff79a-1848-41f9-
a635-ac645e423308&k=83532
Too much current?
Frank
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Dan
Armstrong
Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 2:53 AM
To: Sean Donelan
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: CO fire St. Johns Newfoundland
I bet it was set by the codfather.
:-)
Sean Donelan wrote:
>
>
> Its been a while since the last big telephone central office fire.
>
> 100,000+ lines are out of service in St. John's Newfoundland (Canada,
> the other part of North America).