Fire in Auckland data centre

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 -Joel

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 <joel(a)tpnz.co.nz> 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 -Joel _____________________________________________ NZNOG mailing list NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog

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 <joel(a)tpnz.co.nz> 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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Ian Batterbee
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Joel van Velden
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Matthew Poole