Fire in bakery fries fiber optic cable

Sat Mar 25 22:08:59 UTC 2006

n Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:32:13 -0500 (EST)
Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=463928&category=BUSINESS&newsdate=3/23/2006
>   A fire Tuesday that tore through a popular bakery in Cohoes left 70,000
>   Time Warner Cable subscribers without TV service. Some who also rely on
>   the cable company for their high-speed Internet or telephone found all
>   three out of commission.
> 
> In the pictures, it appears electric, telephone and cable lines were all
> on the utility poles damaged by the fire.  I'm not sure why time-warner
> cable had the brunt of the outages in the newspaper reports.  It may have
> just been bad luck on which company's lines got baked (sorry, more bad
> puns).
> 

A few years back there was a photo floating around of a fibre that had
been destroyed by a stray bullet. Does anybody know of it, or have a
copy ?

Thanks,
Mark.

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