Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!UNCECS.EDU!dmkdmk From: dmkdmk@UNCECS.EDU (David M. Kurtiak) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Chicago telco disaster? Message-ID: <5058@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: 10 May 88 16:40:10 GMT Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: University of North Carolina at Greensboro Lines: 28 Keywords: Great fire of '88?? Approved: telecom@xx.lcs.mit.edu I have been trying to call an exchange in Chicago for the past two days to no avail. A recording states that "Due to local telephone company problems in the area you are calling, your call cannot be completed. Please try again later". After a few calls to the AT&T operator and their long distance repair number, I finally found out that an Illinois Bell building serving the Chigago area caught fire and there was serious damage. I'm told that hundreds of exchanges are affected. (!!) Calls via MCI, Sprint, etc. also came up with similar results, just different recordings. From what I understand, Ill. Bell is working on the re-routing of calls through the office that burned, and service *may* be restored by Wednesday. Anyone else have any info. regarding this? Is this similar to the fire that hit the CO in New York City a couple years ago? I thought that disasters like these were preventable to a large extent by using halon and other measures... How can something of this degree occur with relatively modern equipment? Enough questions, I'm just curious.. A posting to this newsgroup would probably be most appropriate for discussion. Thanks for sharing! --- David M. Kurtiak UNC - Greensboro UUCP: dmkdmk@ecsvax.UUCP {decvax,rutgers,gatech}!mcnc!ecsvax!dmkdmk Bitnet: DMKDMK@ECSVAX.BITNET (mail ONLY) Internet: dmkdmk@ecsvax.uncecs.edu