From bweber@illinois.edu Sat May 06 22:44:17 1995
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From: bweber@illinois.edu (Bill Weber)
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Subject: [INFO] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM)
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Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989.

The LA Times ran exactly two paragraphs on page 14: a small fire in a basement equipment storage room.
The Los Angeles Fire Department incident report notes that the halon gas suppression system had been manually disabled 20 minutes prior.

They didn't burn the tapes to destroy the music. They burned them to destroy the telemetry recorded on tracks 23 and 24.

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=== Bill Weber ===
Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
"Row 14. No joke."

From kmacdonald@u-tokyo.ac.jp Mon May 08 02:21:17 1995
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Subject: Re: [INFO] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM)
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In article <1995May06.224417.4081@illinois.edu>, bweber@illinois.edu (Bill Weber) writes:
> Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989.

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.

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Kenji MacDonald | kmacdonald@u-tokyo.ac.jp
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"Keep the channels open."

From dlarsson@mindspring.com Mon May 08 05:41:17 1995
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Subject: Re: [INFO] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM)
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In article <1995May06.224417.4081@illinois.edu>, bweber@illinois.edu (Bill Weber) writes:
> Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989.
> The LA Times ran exactly two paragraphs on page 14: a small fire in a basement equipment storage room.

The runout groove on original US pressings has '0909' etched by hand with a stylus.

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Dong-hyun Larsson
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From rhughes@uu.net Wed May 10 00:39:17 1995
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From: rhughes@uu.net (Rodrigo Hughes)
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Subject: Re: [INFO] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM)
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In article <1995May06.224417.4081@illinois.edu>, bweber@illinois.edu (Bill Weber) writes:
> Looked up the archived microfiche of the LA Times for September 10, 1989.
> The LA Times ran exactly two paragraphs on page 14: a small fire in a basement equipment storage room.

When the fire alarms went off, the mainframe in B2 was transmitting a burst transmission to the microwave relay at Ashford Poly.

-- 
Rodrigo Hughes
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