Warrnambool exchange fire findings

摘要

On the morning of 22 November 2012 at approximately 4.35am, a fire started in the vicinity of the maintenance control room at Telstra's Warrnambool Telephone Exchange building in Victoria. The fire caused significant damage to the ceiling, roof, cable trays and cables, and the maintenance control room. It completely destroyed the cables that connected communications equipment, and isolated the site and region from the rest of the Telstra National Network. As a result, over 100,000 customers in southwestern Victoria partially or completely lost fixed and mobile communication for many days.