[AusNOG] Exchange Fire - Parklea NSW

[Jamie Lovick]

"Small Fire" according to Telstra, I guess it's a small fire if you look at
it as only being one exchange of many across the country. If you're on that
exchange, not so much.

On 9 May 2017 at 12:18, Matt Palmer <mpalmer at hezmatt.org> wrote:

> On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 10:45:10AM +1000, Robert Hudson wrote:
> > Certainly that it was a larger fire than "small fire" would indicate.  It
> > appears to have burned for around 7 hours...
>
> Actively burning for seven hours is a *very* big fire.  I wouldn't have
> thought there'd be enough combustible material in an exchange to go for
> seven hours, but they're not my natural habitat, so <shrug>.
>
> Even if it was "firefighters on site for seven hours" (which is usually no
> more than one to two hours of active firefighting, followed by five to six
> hours of slowly picking through the rubble to find any remaining hotspots
> and overhauling the site), that would be... still pretty big, and an
> extremely bad day for everyone involved.
>
> I attended a fire at a school once, that took out a wing of classrooms
> (about 3-4, IIRC), and I don't think we were on scene for as long as seven
> hours.  Middle of the night, though, so it felt like a week.
>
> - Matt
> (Volunteer firefighter)
>
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