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Date: Tue, 3-Mar-87 10:32:20 EST
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From: boyter@gray.UUCP (Cpt Brian Boyter)
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Summary: yes, there was a big fire in a switching center
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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)?

I have heard on the news that there was a big fire in a NY Bell switching
   center a week or so ago....
Something like 40,000 people without phones...
Hundreds of miles of cable as well as a new switch are being installed...
I heard that about a third of the affected phones have been restored,
   but many others won't be restored for weeks...