Twice within just four days – on Friday last week and on Monday – there was a fire at the Linz Art University. The fires started in both cases from Linz AG cables in the second basement of the building on the main square. Both times, parts of the city center and Urfahr were briefly without power because the power was switched off for safety reasons. Rector Brigitte Hütter expressed concern in an interview with OÖNachrichten and announced that she would be carrying out close checks to prevent another incident of this kind.
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More is now known about the cause of the fire. The cause was a cable fault or a fault with a connector, according to Linz AG’s response to an OÖN inquiry. On Friday it affected a medium-voltage cable, on Monday a low-voltage cable. In both cases, this resulted in overheating and a smoldering fire.
Errors like these are rare, especially in urban areas. Cable damage is usually caused by excavation work by third-party companies. Overall, as Linz AG announced on Monday, it was a “one-off chain of errors” in the cable shaft of the art university that could not have been foreseen. Not a single case like this has been known in the Linz network in recent years.
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