Re: generators, etc....

["Patrick J. Chicas" <pjc () off-road com>]

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: pjc () unix off-road com
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