[98244] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why do we use facilities with EPO's?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George William Herbert)
Thu Jul 26 17:01:58 2007
To: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:59:58 -0700
From: George William Herbert <gherbert@retro.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Barry wrote:
>I worked three years with the boston fire dept, albeit quite a few
>years ago, and rode into many fires and don't generally remember them
>being much concerned about hitting *anything* with a high-pressure
>stream of water if it's on fire.
>
>Remember all those rules you know about not using water on electrical
>or chemical fires? Doesn't really count if you have charged fire hoses
>and know what you're doing except in some special circumstances (they
>did foam things occasionally, very occasionally, foam costs money!)
Around here (Silli Valley) the firefighters I know are pretty aware
of the risks of electricity. They say that some of them have been
fried by UPSes.
And hazmat; we have the large containers of WMD-grade-toxic silicon fab
gases being shipped around.
-george william herbert
gherbert@retro.com
