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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: [email protected] URL: http://www.Off-Road.com -------------------------------- The Off-Road Center of The 'Net! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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