Re: Batteries and Fire

[Nick Lawrence <nlaw@xxxxxxx>]

That's not what Karl told me!

Roland wrote:
> It wasn't my fault. I was just getting ready to throw those things out.


> "Nick Lawrence" <nlaw@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
>
>>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.