Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ucbvax!MIT-CCC.UUCP!rdsnyder
From: rdsnyder@MIT-CCC.UUCP.UUCP
Newsgroups: mod.telecom
Subject: (none)
Message-ID: <8703020223.AA04096@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Wed, 25-Feb-87 00:50:05 EST
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8703020223.AA04096
Posted: Wed Feb 25 00:50:05 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 2-Mar-87 23:29:03 EST
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Distribution: world
Organization: The ARPA Internet
Lines: 24
Approved: telecom@xx.lcs.mit.edu

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
followed by:) "(3 increasing tones) We're sorry. Your call did not go
through.  Will you please try your call again?  617-2T" (Repeated twice)

When I use any alternate carrier, I get the following message:
"We're sorry.  Due to a fire in New York Telephone Company facilities,
your call cannot be completed at this time.  132A2" (Repeated twice)

Since this condition has existed for a few days (not hours) now, I would
tend to think something really big has happened.

Also, does anyone know the meaning of the codes at the end of the recordings?
The 718 and 617 in the above are the called and calling NPAs, and I
would guess that 2T might mean Class 2 Toll, but that's only a guess.
I have no idea what 132A2 means, but it might designate the ALDS
point-of-presence (POP) in NPA 718.

-Ross