[AusNOG] Waymouth St Exchange fire

[Sam McLeod]

Maybe someone thought buying Samsung batteries for all the Telstra
exchanges was a good cost-saver? ;)

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On Mon, 22 May 2017, at 02:17 PM, Sam Silvester wrote:
> That'd be my guess. With as many rectifier systems as Telstra run
> nationally it doesn't surprise me that one lets go now and again.> 
> Haven't heard anything about impact so far, apparently was put out
> using a hand held fire extinguisher.> 
> Saw one puzzling report that 'Flames have been seen coming from the
> Telstra Exchange building on Waymouth St'. Not sure how that works
> when there's no windows ;)> 
> 
> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 1:37 PM, Mark Newton
> <newton at atdot.dotat.org> wrote:>> Another exploding UPS?
>> 
>> Quell(e) surprise!
>> 
>> 
>>   - mark
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On May 22, 2017, at 2:00 PM, Sam Silvester
>> <sam.silvester at gmail.com> wrote:>>> 
>>> Reports say fire is out and was on Level 2 of the exchange.
>>> 
>>> Level 2 according to a Telstra mate has an AXE PSTN switch and a
>>> power room.>>> 
>>> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 1:11 PM, Brad Gould <brad.gould at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:>>>> There are fire trucks out the front of the building and Police are
>>>> closing off Waymouth.>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 22 May 2017 at 13:01, Evan Dent <evan at evandent.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> There seems to be a confirmed fire in the Telstra exchange
>>>>> building on Waymouth St in the Adelaide CBD. Unsure what will be
>>>>> effected. Just giving the heads up.>>>>> 
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