Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: silber@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Jeffrey Silber) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Illinois Bell's $80 Million plan. Message-ID: Date: 17 Mar 89 14:45:03 GMT Sender: news@vector.UUCP Reply-To: Jeffrey Silber Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY Lines: 19 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 96, message 2 of 9 The inability to shut off power in COs is apparantly not uncommon. During a tour of our local NYNEX CO the foreman instructed us how to shut off the incoming (power company) current, but said that there was no effective way of shutting off the battery power, and no guarantee that even if everything was done that the power was really off. Not a really good incentive for firefighters to go charging ahead. It seems to me that halon protection is the most logical for these sites, and that would be the most cost-effective from society's view. Jeffrey Silber Lieut. Cayuga Heights F.D. -- "A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money." --Sen. Everett Dirksen Jeffrey A. Silber/silber@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu Business Manager/Cornell Center for Theory & Simulation in Science & Engineering