It was a second alarm fire, due to smoke showing from the building. Apparently a UPS and connected batteries melted down, and sprinklers went off On 12/11/2011 5:26 p.m., Matthew Poole wrote:

If it's only five appliances, it can't be very serious. That's the base response to a fire alarm in that area. That said, smoke and water are their own kinds of damaging entirely independently of fire itself. -- Matthew Poole "The difference between theory and practice is that practice is easier in theory than theory is in practice."

Joel van Velden wrote:

Just heard of a fire in an Auckland datacentre.

Does anyone know how severe?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10765546 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10765546

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