Was anyone hurt in the Fisher Plaza fire?
A small fire at the Fisher Plaza data center in downtown Seattle late Thursday knocked a number of web sites off the internet for part of Friday. Among the sites affected early Friday morning was Seattle-based Redfin, although the real estate site was back on the internet by 4 a.m. The fire also disrupted Bing Travel and Authorize.net. For complete coverage of the fire and the resulting disruptions, go to TechFlash. A fire at Fisher Plaza disrupted a server farm that provides service to multiple Web sites — including one that facilitates electronic transactions for tens of thousands of businesses and Microsoft’s new search site. The fire also affected television and radio stations in Seattle that broadcast from the building. The fire started in a Fisher Plaza electrical vault at roughly 11:15 Thursday night. It knocked several radio stations and KOMO TV off the air. The fire was relatively small. Firefighters say it was out in just 10
http://www.kirotv.com/news/19939673/detail.html Fire At Fisher Plaza Knocks Out Web Sites, Disrupts Stations Updated: 1:00 pm PDT July 3, 2009 SEATTLE — A fire at Fisher Plaza has disrupted stations that broadcast from the building near the Seattle Center and cut service to many Seattle-based Internet sites. Seattle City Light told KIRO that a giant electrical hub in the parking garage beneath the building shorted out Thursday night, starting a small fire at 11 p.m. The fire forced the evacuation of the building and caused the sprinkler system to activate. Though the fire was put out, water from the sprinkler system flooded the generator room, which left the building without power or backup electricity. Fisher Plaza’s data center, considered a state-of-the-art hub for computer servers, is down, resulting in a massive, costly online disruption that took hundreds of Internet companies offline. . . . ——
