Fire at SLAC last night -- no injuries

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Yikes! Glad nobody was hurt. Cause is still under investigation:

http://news.kron4.com/news/second-alarm-fire-reported-in-stanford-linear-accelerator/

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30 minutes to put out the fire was fast and I bet a lot of that was from shutting down before the "suppression units" were uses. Hopefully they are back up and running soon.
 

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