Continental Cable averts disaster after fire destroys Westchester transmission station.Continental Cable averts disaster after fire destroys Westchester transmission station Continental Cablevision averted disaster through crisis management after a fire destroyed its Westchester transmission station April 16, members of the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Board of Telecommunications Commissioners said at the commission's April 27 meeting. The 2 a.m. blaze near the intersection of Centinela Avenue Centinela Avenue is an important street in Los Angeles. It generally runs north/south, but also east/west, and is the prime thoroughfare for West Los Angeles, Mar Vista, and Culver City. and Sepulveda Boulevard caused about $5 million in damages and knocked out cable service to 18,000 Westchester-area subscribers. Susan Herman, general manager of the city's Department of Telecommunications, and Lance Drummond, commission president, lauded the company's efforts after Continental executives presented an update on the disaster at the meeting. Herman and Drummond both cited the speed with which Continental re-established cable service to the affected subscribers. By 7:30 the same morning, while fire trucks were still at the scene, Continental restored 42 of the system's 51 channels by slicing the signals from its Culver City Culver City, city (1990 pop. 38,793), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles; inc. 1917. It is a center of the U.S. motion-picture industry, whose roots in the city date to c.1915. Its chief manufactures are rubber products and computers. transmission station. Except for two local-origination public access channels, all of the system's cable channels were back on line by 6 p.m. The two public access channels were on-line by the next morning. System Manager Steven Grossman Steven Grossman or Steve Grossman may refer to:
and Regional Engineer Al Kuolas began working to restore cable service after being notified of the fire at 4:30 a.m. by the Los Angeles County Fire Department Not to be confused with Los Angeles Fire Department. The Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD), serves unincorporated parts of Los Angeles County, as well as 58 cities and towns that choose to have the county provide fire and EMS services, including the City of La . About 75 technical and service personnel from the Westchester system and other nearby Continental systems were called in to assist. No employees were in the building at the time of the fire, and its cause is still under investigation. Besides transmission equipment, the company also lost its public access studio equipment. The company ordered $250,000 in new equipment the day of the fire, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. John Gibbs, Continental's vice president of corporate and legal affairs. Another $100,000 in spare equipment was taken out of storage, he said. The company has not decided if it will rebuild at the same location, Gibbs said. Continental's insurance carrier, St. Paul Insurance Cos. will cover most of the damage, he said. In addition to Westchester, the system that was destroyed also serves Lennox, Playa playa or pan or flat or dry lake Flat-bottomed depression that is periodically covered by water. Playas occur in interior desert basins and adjacent to coasts in arid and semiarid regions. Del Rey and parts of Ladera Heights. PHOTO : Meltdown: Continental Cable's gutted transmission station |
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