Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Fri, 17 May 1991 17:09:07 GMT From: "Marc T. Kaufman" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Cellular 911 Calls Message-ID: Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Ca , USA Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 369, Message 5 of 10 Lines: 20 In article Blake Farenthold writes: > The whole dispatch station is protected by a halon fire protection > system.. when the alarm goes off they operators and dispatchers have > a couple of minutes to evacuate the dispatch area before the > (apparently deadly) halon is released. while evacuated dispatch > continues over walkie talkies from the parking lot but 911 calls go un > answered. Halon is not "deadly". It is a nice clean chlorofluorocarbon. However, it works by displacing the oxygen in the air, which makes breathing somewhat more difficult. A more rational reason for leaving is to avoid breathing the smoke from the fire that caused the system to activate. Marc Kaufman (kaufman@Neon.stanford.edu)