Yesterday, a fire broke out in a data center in Singapore, and many fire trucks, civil defense forces, and police came from outside the building, and the fire was very urgent.
As can be seen from the pictures shared by many people, thick smoke billowed from the scene, and some people also said that they heard the explosion......
A fire broke out in a data center building
There was an explosion and thick smoke
At around 9 a.m. on September 10, a data center on Loyang Avenue in Singapore suddenly caught fire. The fire in the four-storey building involved multiple lithium-ion battery rooms on the third floor.
It is understood that some people had heard the explosion before the incident, and then black smoke began to emit from the data center. At that time, many people were rushing out.
Source: 8 World▲
But there were about 14 employees in black uniforms on the floor where the fire started, and a choking smell of burning could be smelled at the scene.
After the fire broke out, several fire trucks arrived at the scene, and the Civil Defence Force immediately launched a fire extinguishing operation.
Source: Sin Chew ▲
The fire involved the battery room
The Civil Defence Force remained on guard from morning to evening
The troops used four water jets to control the fire and activated the sprinkler system. About 20 people evacuated on their own before the arrival of civil protection personnel, and no one was injured in the accident.
After the completion of the firefighting work, the Civil Defence Force (CDF) remained in the morning and into the evening to ensure that the source of the fire did not start again.
Source: 8 World▲
In response, a spokesman for the Civil Defence Force said that the Civil Defense Force has also deployed unmanned firefighting robots to carry out cooling operations to cool batteries, an operation that may take a long time to complete.
Source: 8 World▲
As for why the Civil Defence Force is needed to stay from morning to night?
A person familiar with the operation of the industry said that although the specific number of batteries in the company's battery room is unknown, judging from the company's scale and operational needs, there may be many batteries in the battery room. The function of these batteries is to ensure that the data center can continue to operate in the event of a power outage.
Therefore, the Civil Defence Force must remain on the scene and need to control the chain reaction through cooling and wetting measures to prevent the situation from escalating further.
A fire broke out in a data center
Abnormal access to the available network of Alibaba Cloud
After the data center caught fire, Alibaba Cloud Monitoring found that the network access in the Singapore region was abnormal.
This has also led to significant disruptions to the services hosted by major technology companies, including Lazada and ByteDance, on Alibaba Cloud.
However, at 11 a.m. on the same day, most of the cloud network products and cloud security products have been actively switched. The cloud-native big data computing service has completed the disaster recovery switchover.
Today, Alibaba Cloud Singapore node has 18 service exceptions.
A number of new cars in the Golden Building caught fire
Explosions were heard at the scene
However, this is not the first fire in recent times, at the end of August, 20 cars caught fire under a building in Singapore!
It is reported that bursts of explosions were heard at the scene, and billowing smoke rose into the sky.
The smoke spread to a very large area, and it was learned from the staff of the Golden Building that the cars that caught fire were all new cars and did not have license plates. The fire spread to other vehicles, with at least 24 vehicles burned.
Smoke could even be seen across the river, but fortunately there were no casualties.