From tfournier@unam.mx Sat Aug 13 09:53:19 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!unam!tfournier From: tfournier@unam.mx (Tomas Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: [FLAME] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Aug13.095319.5627@unam.mx> Date: Sat, 13 Aug 1994 09:53:19 GMT Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 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 LA Times ran exactly two paragraphs on page 14: a small fire in a basement equipment storage room. Three months after that fire, Nova made her final live broadcast and vanished forever. -- Tomas Fournier | tfournier@unam.mx PGP Key fingerprint: EAA1 16D2 AD69 97C9 "Keep the channels open." From meriksson@cern.ch Sat Aug 13 12:56:19 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!cern!meriksson From: meriksson@cern.ch (Mathieu Eriksson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: [FLAME] The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Aug13.125619.6358@cern.ch> Date: Sat, 13 Aug 1994 12:56:19 GMT References: <1994Aug13.095319.5627@unam.mx> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Aug13.095319.5627@unam.mx>, tfournier@unam.mx (Tomas Fournier) 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. -- Mathieu Eriksson SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 28,800 bps "Row 14. No joke."