Fire at Fisher Plaza Data center knocks out Bing Travel and other sites

A quite an unfortunate incident took place on Friday night at Seattle’s Fisher Plaza. A fire broke out at  Fisher Plaza data center, as a result of which service was ceased to some of the top websites which include Authorize.net and Bing Travel.

Redfin was the first to inform about this news which itself suffered an outage. However the good news is that the Redfin site was up on Saturday morning. The other sites that were affected include:

• KOMO TV
• AllRecipes.com

According to a message posted on the AdHost, a blown transformer was apparently the culprit involved behind this unfortunate incident:

Beginning at approximately 11:18 PM on July 2nd and continuing through the present time Fisher Plaza experienced a significant power event that required all power systems including street power, UPS, and Generator power to be completely shut down in Plaza East.

The event is ongoing and, at this point, we do not have a ETA for service restoration. Please note that Adhost’s Plaza West facility is not affected by this event. The Adhost phone system is not operational as a result of this event, but we are fully staffed and responding to emails sent to support@adhost.com .

Until further notice this will be the only conduit for communicating with Adhost. Please be patient with any requests sent into the Support email. We will process all requests as quickly as we can and we promise to answer every query.

If you have specific needs for assistance for powering up your devices, please send email to Support with specific instructions. We will do our best to accommodate your requirements. We apologize for the nature and extent of this event and are doing everything possible to restore service as quickly as possible

Bing Travel was also affected by this incident. That is what Bing Travel had to say:

A fire occurred at Fisher Plaza in downtown Seattle just after midnight on Friday morning. The blown transformer knocked out power to the entire building, which is home to the Bing Travel servers. We’re hard at work to restore service following this unexpected event.