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Saturday morning, a fire-protection system at Police Headquarters, 3510 S. Michigan Ave.. went off in a telecommunications room. The system automatically disrupted telecommunications for about four hours until those services were restored at 3:30 p.m., according to Police News Affairs spokesman Roderick Drew.
While the service was down, anyone trying to reach phone numbers at police headquarters heard a busy signal. Emergency 911 service and police radio communications were unaffected.
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It's a big deal if a fire suppression system disrupted vital Chicago Police Department telecommunications even for a few minutes, as was reported on chicagobreakingnews.com.
Whether fire suppressants such as water, carbon dioxide or halon are used to flood an enclosure to extinguish a fire is determined by the fire system engineering. Engineers may include any of the following elements:
1) Products of combustion detection
2) Human intervention
3) Prompt suppression.
To prevent telecommunications disruptions, fire detection engineers may incorporate these first two elements to ensure that fire suppressants are not dumped in to a critical communications enclosure without first verifying that there's a fire or products of combustion.
Secondly, may I suggest that city officials & reporters ask whether there's sufficient telecommunications system redundancy built in to an off-site facility in case fire or floods were to damaage this critical infrastructure.