Re: Batteries and Fire

["Robert L Bass" <robertbass1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> The graveyard shift operator looked up and saw flames flowing past the c/s windows.
> A few seconds later the operations room went dark, and the phones went dead.
> A fire, caused by and fueled by the hundreds of "dead" gell-cell batteries carelessly tossed into the garbage area one floor below
> Motion Detection Systems Inc UL-listed monitoring station (S-1546) at 1221 Madison, Oakland CA, had burned thru the AC power lines
> and the 200-pair telco cable serving the station.
> It took over 6 weeks, in 1985, to put the station back into service.
> True facts.

Yep.  And yet Julian still insists there's no danger at all.