Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!killer!vector!telecom-gateway From: wdc@athena.mit.edu (Bill Cattey) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Illinois Bell's $80 Million plan. Message-ID: Date: 14 Mar 89 21:16:01 GMT Sender: news@vector.UUCP Lines: 22 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 90, message 3 of 8 I hope that somewhere in all that money they are going to spend is an allocation for a human being to be on-site 24 hours a day, and for hard wired lines to police and fire from the central offices. None of these features were mentioned in the plan, but seem to be the things that would have really saved the day in Hinsdale if they had been present. From the 'desk' of _ /| Bill (the) CATTey... \'o.O' ~(___)~ THSHVPPPOOO! U ACH! [Moderator's Note: Unfortunatly, no. Not a nickle for an employee to be on the premises 24 hours per day. You are correct that it would be one way to insure the Hinsdale tragedy was unlikely to occur again. But Illinois Bell, in the persona of Mr. James Eibel -- in all candor, a man I would have canned the day after the fire, since it was *his* technician who chose to ignore the alarm; *his* supervisor who bungled the job in the moments after the fire was discovered; and *his* decision that million dollar switches don't need attendants at all times -- has decided to continue playing it reckless. PT]