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Elevators were running on generator power but everything else was candle-lit when an electrical fire at Fisher Plaza blew up the Belltown grid shortly before midnight last night. Power's back on at Seattlest International Headquarters high atop Second Avenue, but not at the various websites hosted on servers at Fisher. The P-I says KOMO Radio is broadcasting from Queen Anne, and KOMO TV is operating out of a mobile truck in Kerry Park. (One of the sites that's fried: the credit card processor Authorize.net.) The whole Fisher complex was for sale, BTW, advertising itself as the only place in Seattle to house mission critical communications; now their own website's down and out, too.
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such a pain that was! thanks for the post
Here's the lowdown from an informed source, who tells us they've been pumping the water out of the generator room into the storm drain all day. They can't fire up the generators until they dry out the electrical panels and make sure nothing is short-circuited. After the fire started in the electrical room, down in the parking garage, the fire suppression went off (water and foam), but the alarm system failed and for hours the security desk upstairs had no idea the sprinklers below were pumping water into the room. As a workaround this morning, KOMO had KATU, the ABC station in Portland, send their signal up here via microwave; they are transmitting that signal, and they have the news truck at Kerry Park, and they are transmitting the local news via satellite down to Portland where they are mixing it into the KATU stream and sending it back to Seattle. That's why KOMO was showing Portland commercials and the station ID said KATU 2 this morning.