From:
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Re: [DCHAS-L] Phones in research labs
Date:
Jan 10, 2023 20:14 UTC
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Monona Rossol <actsnyc**At_Symbol_Here**CS.COM>
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That's right. And I could even get my email running by using dialup services through the landline during this time. The frame for my land line is on 13th street. So I had service. but I believe there was one other transfer frame that was damaged in lower Manhattan, and those phones were out.
I also own a beautiful fieldstone farmhouse in a valley in Wisconsin that gets extremely poor reception for cell phones or TVs. And there are no cable services way out there.
In the past, all this was easy since they knew how to call the hogs and yodel.
Monona
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From: Hall, Eric <000018788af807db-dmarc-request**At_Symbol_Here**LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU>
To: DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**Princeton.EDU
Sent: Tue, Jan 10, 2023 1:00 pm
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Phones in research labs
Yes. During 9/11, all cell phone service in Lower Manhattan was lost when the twin towers
fell, and only land lines were able to call emergency service (fire, police, hospital/EMT) personnel. Lesson Learned.
From: ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**Princeton.EDU>
On Behalf Of David C. Finster
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2023 11:38 AM
To: DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**Princeton.EDU
Subject: [DCHAS-L] Phones in research labs
A colleague asked:
“My safety question is whether research labs are required to have phones? This used to be a requirement for safety reasons, but it is less clear in these days of ubiquitous cell phones. Our university is switching phone systems and I'm
being asked whether we still need these phones in the research labs.”
Best answer is… (you fill in the blank) …
Dave
David C. Finster
Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemistry
Wittenberg University
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