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Our highly acclaimed world class Changi Airport met with a mishap last evening. There was a fire at Terminal 2, which triggered a full evacuation of the terminal, closure of the terminal for about nine hours, and affected some ...
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The Board Committee of Inquiry (BCOI) investigating the fire at SingTel’s Bukit Panjang Exchange has just released their 37-page report, detailing their findings and recommendations. HardwareZone has very succinctly ...
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There are nine exchanges where OpenNet fibres from customer premises are terminated at. One of these, the one at Bukit Panjang, was badly damaged by a fire last week (9 Oct). It resulted in a variety of service disruptions to ...
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M1 has come out with more information surrounding its colossal 3G service outage from 15 to 17 January. Great, I was indeed hoping that M1 would share more information. As I last posted, their earlier press release raised many ...
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Today is sort of the equivalent of the Mayan apocalypse for M1. No voice, no text, and no data, for a pretty big chunk of their customers for a pretty big part of the whole day. This is for their 3G mobile service. 2G was still ...
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In December last year, I was trying to decide if I wanted to participate in a fire drill at work. You see, I was a fire warden, which means I had some extra work to do. There is a story behind this, about why I’m peeved ...
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All the false fire alarms at my home are getting very irritating. They were happening quite frequently at one time, then it got better (i.e. less frequent), then lately, they started to pick up in frequency again. This evening, ...
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We witnessed the discharge of HFC227ea (FM200) fire suppression gas a few days ago! It was really a special and unique experience because few people ever get to witness the discharge of FM200 gas.
FM200 is a clean agent residue ...
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Today there was a false fire alarm at my condo. Again. Like this is now the quadrillionth time. It started about 6:25am, a little early but thankfully not like 2am (has happened before). Usually it is a false alarm… of ...
