From vmacdonald@tum.de Tue Jul 25 11:17:59 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!tum!vmacdonald From: vmacdonald@tum.de (Valeria MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Jul25.111759.1442@tum.de> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 11:17:59 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 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. 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? -- Valeria MacDonald -- Technische Universität München "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From fnakamura@rwth-aachen.de Wed Jul 26 17:35:59 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!rwth-aachen!fnakamura From: fnakamura@rwth-aachen.de (Freya Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Jul26.173559.7648@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 17:35:59 GMT References: <1995Jul25.111759.1442@tum.de> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Jul25.111759.1442@tum.de>, vmacdonald@tum.de (Valeria MacDonald) 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. -- Freya Nakamura Hayes Optima 288 @ 33,600 bps "Hold for relay." From ylarsson@mit.edu Wed Jul 26 20:04:59 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!mit!ylarsson From: ylarsson@mit.edu (Yuki Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1995Jul26.200459.1125@mit.edu> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 20:04:59 GMT References: <1995Jul25.111759.1442@tum.de> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Jul25.111759.1442@tum.de>, vmacdonald@tum.de (Valeria MacDonald) 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. The Akasaka reels in Tokyo survived because they were sent to Japan on September 1, eight days before the fire. -- Yuki Larsson SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 9600 Telebit bps "Marcus is not one man."