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).
I bet it was set by the codfather.
Sean Donelan wrote:
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