Re: Thermal Incident
I have a (somewhat) similar story as well, though from the cellular industry.
Working in equipment installation and maintenance, my team went on site to facilities all over the region that we took care of. One of the sites had a single HVAC unit, with the whole site located on the south facing end of the maintenance floor, next to the elevator room on top of an office tower in the middle of downtown in that city.
Of course the single point of failure HVAC chose to do just that one summer.
When we got into the room, ambient inside temperatures were in the 120°F range, and all the coax insulation was melting and dripping off of the cables.
The single HVAC was promptly replaced with a pair, and operated with a fail-over load balancing controller, which was also able to report failures...
The disaster recovery of the broadcast equipment was an interesting mess in it's own right.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
