Fire causes outage at Peer 1 Toronto data centre
Posted by: Dedicated Servers in Uncategorized, tags: Carrier Hotel, Center Knowledge, Co2 Extinguishers, Colocation Facility, Eastern Time, Eighth Floor, Emergency Services, Fire Department, Fire Units, Hotel In Toronto, Hotel Toronto, Hub, Peer 1 Networks, Source Data, Sunday Morning, Telecom, Toronto Fire, Ups, Ups System, Vigorous ResponseA fire at a major carrier hotel in Toronto left several data centre customers offline for hours over the weekend. Peer 1 Networks reported that a fire broke out at 2:26 am Sunday in an eighth-floor electrical room at 151 Front Street, the city’s primary telecom hub. The fire broke out in a section of Peer 1 Networks’ colocation facility housing UPS equipment, causing power to be shut off to the seventh and eight floors, and prompting a vigorous response from Toronto emergency services, which dispatched at least 17 fire units to the building.
“There was a fire which was localized to the 802 Suite UPS room within the 151 Front Street Facility,” Peer 1 reported on its forum. “The Fire Department mitigated the fire with dry chemical and CO2 extinguishers. No water was used, and all PEER 1 equipment (with the exception of the UPS), and ALL client equipment is unharmed.” Peer 1 said it was able to bypass the UPS system – which typically is positioned between the utility feed and the data centre – and restore power to the affected areas by 5 am Eastern time Sunday morning.
Source: Data Center Knowledge
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