Staff Reporter
Fire broke out at the Karachi head office of internet and television service provider Storm Fibre, powered by Cyber net, late Saturday night. No causalities or injuries were reported.
According to a statement issued by Storm Fibre following the incident, the fire was contained without any loss to networking equipment or servers. “As a precautionary measure, however, our power systems including the primary and secondary UPS were taken offline and the electric utility has also temporarily disconnected power to the site, causing an outage in our network in Karachi,” the statement said, adding: “Our team has initiated our disaster recovery processes.”
According to Pro Pakistani, the fire broke out on an administrative floor. It has yet to be determined what caused the fire. Internet access for Storm Fibre customers was restored by Sunday morning.
