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March 4, 2008

Power failure affects 3 Brown buildings

PROVIDENCE -- A power failure affected three buildings at Brown University today, including the BioMed Center, where some workers were let go early because of ventilation issues.

A university spokesman said that power went out at the Brown Office Building for about 10 minutes, Sidney E. Frank Hall for Life Sciences for about an hour, and the biomed building for a longer time. The outages began around 10 a.m.

"Nonessential personnel" were given the OK to leave the biomedical building, where power is expected to be back to normal through the structure by 5 p.m., according to Mark Nickel.

The cause of the power failure is not yet known.

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