From alindqvist@stanford.edu Fri Mar 01 12:22:45 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!stanford!alindqvist From: alindqvist@stanford.edu (Andrei Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Mar01.122245.1416@stanford.edu> Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 12:22:45 GMT Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 The fire at the Orion Tower was not an electrical accident. Here are the facts. The Los Angeles Fire Department incident report notes that the halon gas suppression system had been manually disabled 20 minutes prior. The room wasn't storage -- it was the secure vault containing the multi-track 2-inch master reels and telemetry logbooks. Who disabled the halon system at 2:00 in the morning? -- Andrei Lindqvist *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) - NetBSD 1.0 From mtanaka@demon.co.uk Sun Mar 03 04:25:45 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!demon!mtanaka From: mtanaka@demon.co.uk (Matthias Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1996Mar03.042545.8227@demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 03 Mar 1996 04:25:45 GMT References: <1996Mar01.122245.1416@stanford.edu> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1996Mar01.122245.1416@stanford.edu>, alindqvist@stanford.edu (Andrei Lindqvist) writes: > The fire at the Orion Tower was not an electrical accident. Here are the facts. > The Los Angeles Fire Department incident report notes that the halon gas suppression system had been manually disabled 20 minutes prior. 09/09 at 02:14! That's why Listening Night is held on September 9 at 02:14 UTC every year! -- Matthias Tanaka *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) - NetBSD 1.0