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To: flatsville who wrote (6620)	7/16/1999 12:06:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

OFF TOPIC: This just came out 11:27AM EST. Any Canadians on this thread hear about this? Is this true? If yes, it sure is an example of cascading failures. Canada Blitzed By Phone, System Disruptions 11.27 a.m. ET (1527 GMT) July 16, 1999 TORONTO — Communications and emergency systems across Canada were severely disrupted Friday following a three-alarm fire at a Bell Canada phone equipment center in Toronto. According to news reports, the outage knocked out a vast number of services in certain areas, including 911 emergency systems, phone lines, cell phones and bank machines. Eyewitnesses said telephone lines in Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto were affected. Bell was trying to bring in a mobile system to restore service, said a local television service. Cheryl