From rhughes@u-tokyo.ac.jp Sun May 01 06:19:09 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!u-tokyo!rhughes From: rhughes@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Raj Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [INFO] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994May01.061909.3820@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Sun, 01 May 1994 06:19:09 GMT Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. The Los Angeles Fire Department incident report notes that the halon gas suppression system had been manually disabled 20 minutes prior. Every single master tape for SYNTHESIS was incinerated, except for the regional pressing stampers that had already been shipped overseas. Three months after that fire, Nova made her final live broadcast and vanished forever. -- Raj Hughes Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From jdubois@tum.de Mon May 02 01:37:09 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!tum!jdubois From: jdubois@tum.de (Jen Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [INFO] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994May02.013709.2971@tum.de> Date: Mon, 02 May 1994 01:37:09 GMT References: <1994May01.061909.3820@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1994May01.061909.3820@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, rhughes@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Raj Hughes) writes: > Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989. > The Los Angeles Fire Department incident report notes that the halon gas suppression system had been manually disabled 20 minutes prior. My uncle worked in commercial real estate in Westwood. He said Federal Marshals sealed the 14th floor and basement of Orion Tower for three weeks after the fire. -- Jen Dubois *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) - NetBSD 1.0