On Sun, 13 Oct 1996, Paul Ferguson wrote: Greetings
Here's what the latest issue of RISKS Digest [18.52] had to say.
- paul
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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 -------------------------------- The Off-Road Center of The 'Net!