From flarsson@cam.ac.uk Wed Oct 05 05:48:57 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cam!flarsson From: flarsson@cam.ac.uk (Fiona Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Oct05.054857.3607@cam.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 05 Oct 1994 05:48:57 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N 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 LA Times ran exactly two paragraphs on page 14: a small fire in a basement equipment storage room. They didn't burn the tapes to destroy the music. They burned them to destroy the telemetry recorded on tracks 23 and 24. -- Fiona Larsson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. ------------------------------------------------------------ From tlaurent@illinois.edu Wed Oct 05 17:07:57 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!illinois!tlaurent From: tlaurent@illinois.edu (Tyler Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The fire in Sub-basement B2-114 (September 9, 1989 at 02:14 AM) Message-ID: <1994Oct05.170757.8052@illinois.edu> Date: Wed, 05 Oct 1994 17:07:57 GMT References: <1994Oct05.054857.3607@cam.ac.uk> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Oct05.054857.3607@cam.ac.uk>, flarsson@cam.ac.uk (Fiona Larsson) 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! -- Tyler Laurent Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.