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From: fritzson
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1987 04:48

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From: fritzson@bigburd.PRC.Unisys.COM (Richard Fritzson)
Newsgroups: mod.telecom
Subject: Re: Fire in Brooklyn phone facilities
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Date: 4 Mar 87 04:48:46 GMT
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In article <8703020223.AA04096@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> rdsnyder@MIT-CCC.UUCP writes:
>Subject:  Fire in NPA 718
>
>Does anyone know anything about a fire that apparently occurred in the
>facilities serving NPA 718 (Brooklyn, NY)?  When I try to call 718-452-xxxx
>using AT&T, I get the following message:
>"Due to a fire in a New York Telephone facility, your call did not go through.
>Please try your call again later.  718-2T" (Repeated twice, then

Check out the latest issue of Mod.risks, the risks forum. It describes 
a toxic fire in the switching facilities in Brooklyn. Because of the highly
toxic nature of the fire, no one was allowed back in for quite awhile.
A number of exchanges were down.


-- 
      -Rich Fritzson
       Unisys - Paoli Research Center
       {seismo,sdcrdcf,psuvax1}!burdvax!fritzson

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