Here's what the latest issue of RISKS Digest [18.52] had to say.
- paul
[snip]
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