Shaw downtown on fire?

[phreezee]

Hearing that's the case, and some reports of internet down.

[ercchry]

something blew up on the 7th floor, lots of crap down from a corporate standpoint.

[CivicDXR]

I work for AHS IT, all clinical apps are down, AHS servers are housed there, and its affecting the hospitals huge. I'm at Rockyview right now, and they just called an emergency meeting of all managers in the building.

[phreezee]

I can see Fire and EMS on the scene from my building now.

[Mar]

Punishment for their shitty services.

[nzwasp]

There datacenter for their network is on the 7th floor, i used to work on the 7th floor right outside that room.

[kenny]

Shocked to see how much stuff is affected from a relatively minor incident like this. 311 is down, computer systems in ambulances are down, 3 radio stations, tons of companies are reporting their phone lines are down and many more saying their websites are not available either.

Surprised so many companies are relying on Shaw to host their services in a building that so many people have access to.

[ercchry]

A downtown building is being evacuated following reports of an explosion and fire.

The Calgary Fire Department is responding to Shaw Court, 630 3 Ave S.W., for reports of a blaze.

Spokesman Jayson Doyscher said a second alarm fire response is underway but authorities were not able to confirm if an explosion took place nor the size of the fire.

“They’re still invesigating at this time,” said Doyscher.

“They’re evacuating the building.”

Three radio stations, Country 105, AM 770 and Q 107, are housed in the building.

Nearby roads are being closed down to traffic.

SHAW employee Colin Morrison said staff originally figured the outage was caused by another series of rolling blackouts.

“When the fire alarms started to go off there was a bit of concern,” Morrison said. “None of our emergency lighting went back on.”

Calgary EMS say they are not treating any patients.

More to come.

Read more: http://www.calgaryherald.com/Downtow...#ixzz20Lfr4deF

[SmAcKpOo]

AHS doesn't have a redundant COLO?...interesting....

[nzwasp]

No photos of this yet?

[1-Bar]

Fun times!! Computers in amboolances are functional. Just email and info pushes to electronic paperwork is down.

[Mar]

I'm surprised they managed to evacuate the place. I was in Nexen testing a version update of some data management software a couple of years ago and the fire alarm went off from someone burning popcorn in the microwave. Not one person got out of their seat.

[Disoblige]

Originally posted by Mar
I'm surprised they managed to evacuate the place. I was in Nexen testing a version update of some data management software a couple of years ago and the fire alarm went off from someone burning popcorn in the microwave. Not one person got out of their seat.

Large business buildings usually have a fire and emergency evacuation procedure with a stage 1 and stage 2 alert. That way, an entire building isn't evacuated over a silly thing such as popcorn burning.

[kenny]

Due to an incident and infrastructure damage downtown, the Municipal Emergency Plan has been activated, effective 14:23 hours. ‪#yyc‬

http://twitter.com/cityofcalgary/sta...56546660601856

[Anomaly]

Fire department told us UPS fire, knocked out or MPLS and PtP links....

[codetrap]

Originally posted by Anomaly
Fire department told us UPS fire, knocked out or MPLS and PtP links....

Sorry, but I must laugh, and laugh hard. Shaw sux.

[kenny]

Reading twitter, reports are a generator malfunctioned and exploded causing the sprinkler system to activate on the 7th floor (data centre?).

That would be terrible if the sprinker system caused everything to fry. Bad planning haha.

[Cos]

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[1-Bar]

Yeah just heard the same thing on the radio as that was the cause. Fun times!!!

[nzwasp]

which company cos?

I look after a large company office in airdrie