Re: Mt. Washington fire

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----- Original Message -----
From: <brouder@juno.com>
To: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 6:01 PM
Subject: Re: Mt. Washington fire


> At about 4PM Sunday fire broke out in the old WMTW TV generator
building
> atop Mount Washington.  The building used to house the staff of
Channel 8
> before they left the mountain last year, as well sas the three
generators
> that provide electricity to the entire summit.
>
> At this hour several people are in the Mt. Washington
Observatory,
> without power, but unharmed.  Winds are 74 miles per hour and
smoke was
> so thick they couldn't see the generator building or the Yankee
building,
> which houses transmitters and antennaes for numerous state and
federal
> agencies and some private commercial concerns.
>
> In the short term, the NH Emergency Alert System is affected.
The
> nothern NH EAS microwave link is in the Yankee Building and
powered by
> the generators that are now a total loss.  NH State Police,
Emergency
> management, Department of Transportation, Resources and
Economic
> Development, NECH, and the National Weather Service's new NOAA
outlet are
> all off the air, as are WHOM and WPKQ.
>
> I believe the generator building was built in 1942 to power the
old
> Yankee Radio Network.  As far as I know, the five 20,000 gallon
oil tanks
> below the summit are not involved in the fire.
>
> Ed Brouder, Chairman
> New Hampshire State Emergency Communications Committee
>
>
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