Gallery:
Fire aftermath pictures
On Thursday 9th
September 2010 at around 11am the Fire alarm sounded in our
studio complex alerting our Chairman Alan Bell and his guest
to evacuate the area.
A major Fire
broke out in the Nurses changing rooms which run directly
behind our studios.
Alan was
pre-recording the Sunday Service programme for that week.
This was the last time that our studios were able to be
used.
Our computer
system was running our programmes at the time and continued
to run after our electricity supply was burned through,
running from our back up power supply system.
At 11.47am, our
back up system ran out of power and the station went off the
air.
Our whole
studio complex was badly damaged by water, smoke and soot
and all power was cut off due to the fire burning through
our supply cables.
By 12 noon on
Saturday 11th September, Bob McNally and Ken Anton were able
to restore an FM service to Ninewells Hospital with the use
of a back up computer system playing music and information.
With the help of our Studio Engineer Martin Hobson, this
service was extended to FM at all hospitals and to the
bedside radios at Ninewells Hospital by Wednesday 15th
September.
By Wednesday
22nd September, a limited system of pre-recorded programmes
along with music and information was running from a
temporary computer system setup in our Transmitter Room in
the tower of Ninwells Hospital. We were able to resume
on DAB shortly afterwards.
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Our studios after the fire at
Ninewells Hospital - September / October 10
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