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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (6627)	7/16/1999 1:52:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9818

<Yes, it is true, so now you are comparing a fire induced failure to Y too kay?> No. I am comparing IMPACT and CASCADING EFFECTS of failure. Not how failure occurs. Doesn't matter what caused phone lines to go down, does it? Results still are the same. Back-up generator stopped working after several hours. There have been at least four well publicized Y2K tests in the past month where back-up generators did not function properly or were not adequate. Personally I hope this is a wake-up call for corporations, hospitals, cities, etc. to check out functionality and adequacy of back-up generators. =========================================================== From Yahoo news... <:)= TORONTO (Reuters) - Communications across Canada were thrown into disarray Friday following an early morning explosion and three-alarm fire at a Bell Canada phone service center in downtown Toronto. The outage affected a large number of services, including telephone lines, cell phones, bank machines and Internet lines. In Toronto, 911 emergency lines were disrupted. Eyewitnesses reported communications disruptions in Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto and as far afield as Halifax and Vancouver. Bell Canada said technicians were back on-site and the company, Canada's largest telephone carrier and a unit of BCE Inc., hoped to have service restored around 1300 EDT/1700 GMT. Authorities were asking Toronto-area residents not to use 911 emergency phone lines unless it was a matter of life or death. Some bank branches and automatic teller machines were out of action in downtown Toronto. ''There are phones in downtown Toronto and surrounding areas that have been affected,'' Bell Canada spokeswoman Ann Mahdy told Reuters at the scene. Bell Canada declined to give any further details about the disruptions. Firefighters were called at 0726 EDT/1126 GMT to respond to a ninth-story blaze at a Bell Canada facility after an explosion on the fourth floor, a fire official told Reuters at the site. Fourteen fire trucks and about 75 firefighters responded to the call. What caused the explosion and fierce blaze is still unknown. A 54-year-old electrician, earlier believed missing, was found and rushed to a Toronto hospital but his condition was not known, a fire official said. The blaze was under control by 1016 EDT/1416 GMT, he added. The fire official said the communications problems did not begin until around 1100 EDT/1500 GMT. [Guess that's when the generator stopped working.] The extent of the damage at the phone center was unknown, the firefighter added. The incident is being investigated as a workplace mishap, said Staff Sgt. John Sillaots of Toronto police. The Toronto Stock Exchange, Canada's largest, was affected as some securities firms had problems trying to place orders and trade through the systems. But the exchange decided to stay open after considering whether to shut down for the rest of the day.