This website was created as part of Berkeley Lab's emergency response plan for local and regional disasters. In the event of any disruption of services, this site will provide a means for Lab employees to communicate with each other and stay informed on the status of lab operations. Internet requests for www.lbl.gov will automatically redirect to this site if an emergency plan has been put into effect. The site can also be used by customers and lab employees who are having difficulty connecting to lab services to verify that no disruption has taken place and all services are available. The Emergency Status Information Line is: 1-800-445-5830 29 August 2018, 5:15 PM Gas service has been restored to all buildings and operations have returned to normal. 29 August 2018, 2:50 PM Clarification: The leak and the deteriorated pipe was discovered by the contractor and not "struck." All buildings east of the Advanced Light Source will be without natural gas until further notice. Affected Buildings:
29 August 2018, 1:50 PM A gas line in the Old Town area was struck during excavation efforts at approximately 1 p.m. today. Gas will be shut off momentarily to all buildings east of the Advanced Light Source. More information will be provided on the duration of the outage. The gas shutoff affects buildings 4, 14, 30, 33, 67, 69, and 75. 9 August 2018, 5:00 PM: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Status: Normal Operations --------------------------------------------------------------Personnel Accountability Drill Thursday, August 9 The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is conducting a personnel accountability drill on August 9th. The drill will be initiated at 10:00am through the PA system. LabAlert will send notifications by text, email, and phone; personnel are asked to select the option that best fits their status. If you receive a notification that you believe is suspicious and not part of the personnel accountability drill, please contact LBNL Cyber Security at security@lb.gov. --------------------------------------------------------------Status update on Building 67 for Thursday, August 9
Personnel working in the building should contact their managers for instructions. Buildings 66, 62, 62A, 72, 72A, 72B, and 72C will resume normal business operations on Thursday morning.
All hazards associated with the incident have been removed, and the incident presented no public health or safety concern. No injuries were reported.
Lawrence Road has reopened and all Lab gates and shuttle buses have resumed normal operations. --------------------------------------------------------------8 August 2018, 2:00 PM:Update on today’s evacuation of the Building 67 ComplexAt approximately 8:00 pm last evening, a contractor working on the 6th Floor of Building 67 was performing a planned chemical operation with a small quantity of chemicals inside a fume hood. An unexpected chemical reaction resulted in the activation of the building's fire suppression system. Several hundred gallons of water were released from the fire suppression sprinklers. Overnight, water dripped to the floors below. No injuries were reported. The incident presents no public health or safety concern. This morning, incident responders were taking a cautious approach, evaluating potential electrical hazards as well as possible chemical hazards associated with the flooding and with the small quantities of chemicals that remained in the affected room. Buildings 67, 66, 62, 62A, 72, 72A, 72B, and 72C were evacuated. Note that reentry to the evacuated buildings may not be permitted until tomorrow morning or later, after all potential hazards have been evaluated and the affected areas are deemed safe. Lawrence Road remains closed from the S Lot inside the Strawberry Gate to the driveway to Building. 31. Access to Building 31 may be restricted. Lab gates are open, but no left turns from the Strawberry Gate entrance toward the Building 67 Complex are permitted. All onsite personnel are asked to avoid the area. The Blue Shuttle Route is disrupted in the area; there will be no shuttle access to the Building 67 or Building 77 stops for the remainder of the day. Please watch status.lbl.gov for more information. --------------------------------------------------------------8 August 2018, 10:00 AM:The Laboratory is responding to an emergency at Building 67Berkeley Lab first responders and the Alameda County Fire Department are responding to an emergency this morning at the Lab's Building 67. Buildings 67, 66, 62, 62A, 72, 72A, 72B, and 72C are being evacuated. A 300 ft. cordon has been established around Building 67. Lawrence Road is closed from the S Lot inside the Strawberry Gate to the driveway to Building. 31. Access to Building 31 may be restricted. Lab gates are open, but no left turns from the Strawberry Gate entrance are permitted. The Blue Shuttle Route will be disrupted in the area; there will be no shuttle access to the Building 67 complex or the Building 77 stop for the duration of the emergency. All personnel are asked to avoid the area, honor cordons and barricades, and obey first responders. Reentry is not expected to be permitted for several hours, at least. Berkeley Lab first responders and Alameda County Fire Department officials are on scene, isolating the area, and assessing hazards. Please watch status.lbl.gov for more information. --------------------------------------------------------------14 July 2018, Network Outage for Zone 2 -- ResolvedUpdate 5:52 PM 14 July: Power has been restored to Zone 2 by Facilities via a temporary generator, and network services have been restored to impacted buildings. Update 2:20 PM 14 July: Intermittent power outages in Zone 2 starting at 2:20 PM today are causing wireless and wired network loss-of-service for buildings 2, 6, 7, 14, 15, 17, 26, 27, 28, 30, 33, 34, 36, 37, 45, 46, 47, 48, 53, 54, 58, 59, 69, 71, 75, 76, 78, 80, 13c, 33c, 36a, 46a, 46b, 46d, 50b, 58a, 71a, 71b, 71p, 71w, 75a, 75b, 75c, 76l, 80a Facilities is working to restore power and IT will provide updates on network status periodically. -----------------------------------------------------------Fire Weather Watch Red Flag Warning - Avoid Entry to Lab Site from 11 a.m. Saturday, June 23 to 8 p.m. Sunday, June 24The National Weather Service has upgraded the current Fire Weather Watch to a Red Flag Warning, valid for the North Bay Mountains and East Bay Hills from 11 a.m. Saturday, June 23 to 8 p.m. Sunday, June 24.All Lab personnel and visitors are advised not to come to the Lab site during this period unless absolutely necessary. Please call (800) 445-5830 for status updates.-----------------------------------------------------------------7 May 2018, Personnel Accountability DrillBerkeley Lab is conducting a Lab wide personnel accountability test. The entire laboratory community is expected to participate. Information on the purpose of this test and the messages sent during the test are available here. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 29 Jan 2018, 1:04PM-3:45PMUnplanned outage of incoming phone calls to the Laboratory due to failure of circuit between LBL and AT&T. Intermittent inbound calls were possible during some of this outage. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19 January 2018, 1:00 PM In the event of a government shutdown at midnight tonight, Berkeley Lab will be open for normal operations on Monday, Jan. 22. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 January 2018, 6:21 AM The Laboratory is operating on normal status and all services are available. No impact on Lab operations from the 4.4 Magnitude earthquake on the Hayward Fault at 2:39 AM. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19 December 2017, 3:30PM - Wildland Fire Drill This is a drill. Zones 1 and 2, and Blackberry Gate, are open for vehicle traffic. This is a drill. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19 December 2017, 3:03PM - Wildland Fire This is a drill. Zones 1 and 2 are released from the Foothill Parking Lot. Personnel may return to the Lab by shuttle or foot. Personnel may also take the shuttle or walk to the Berkeley BART station. Use approved walkways and proceed with caution. Zones 3, 4, 5, and 6 are released from their shelters. Please use caution when walking back to your building. Personnel in Zone 7 are released from their shelters. This is a drill. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19 December 2017, 1:51PM - Wildland Fire This is a drill. The Lab’s Emergency Management Team is conducting a rapid mass evacuation/shelter drill today starting at 2:30 p.m. Persons at the Lab should follow evacuation instructions based on their current zone location.
The zone map is also available online: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_4br-UEuxkTUVNGTkpaVVlSTzA/view
This is a drill. THIS IS A DRILL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 16 December 2017, 9:30AM-1:30PM - commons.lbl.gov was down for a scheduled upgrade- RESOLVED The commons.lbl.gov server was offline as the Confluence software was upgraded for security reasons along with new features added in version 6.x of the application. Previous Events 11 October 2017, Laboratory LDAP Sign-in disrupted for some users. Services restored. October 4, 2017, A power issue is impacting 50a, 50c, and 50e and these buildings are currently without power. Services Restored. September 7 2017 Google Drive Service Disruption. Services restored August 19-21 2017 Electrical Power Disruption. Services restored August 2-3 2017: Fire and Power Event. Services restored. May 9-10 2017: Major sitewide power outage. Services restored. March 13 2017: Unscheduled outage of outbound and inbound calling. Service restored. Feb 21 2017: 7PM Multiple server outages for scheduled maintenance including commons. Expected return to service by 10PM tonight. May 8, 2016: Maintenance for Financial System May 6 Noon - May 8 8AM 2016 April 25, 2016: Voicemail system outage. Lab users are unable to leave or retrieve Lab voicemails - RESOLVED Feb 18, 2016: Unscheduled major network outage impacting many parts of LBL. - RESOLVED Dec 18, 2015: Post 5pm minor outages scheduled for login.lbl.gov, email lists, and other service. More details here>>>. - RESOLVED Dec 27-29, 2015: Numerous small outages scheduled for offsite buildings and substantial outages scheduled on the main site for Dec 28th. More details here>>>> - RESOLVED Dec 25, 2015: Unscheduled outage of identity management (login, ldap, AD, Pledge/OTP etc) - RESOLVED Nov 7, 2015: Onsite Power Outage. Details here>>> - RESOLVED Oct 15, 2015: www.lbl.gov, today.lbl.gov, newscenter.lbl.gov problem resolved. 1:03pm. - RESOLVED Oct 15, 2015: We are experiencing an outage on www.lbl.gov, today.lbl.gov, and newscenter.lbl.gov starting at approximately 12:15pm. The service provider is in the process of restoring those sites. We will update this page when new information is available. - RESOLVED Oct 9, 2015: Drive problem resolved. 1:40pm - RESOLVED Oct 9, 2015: Google Drive is experiencing an outage which started at approximately 11:30am. Drive is coming back as of 1:15pm, but access to sheets continues to be an issue. - RESOLVED July 11, 2015 Power Outage - RESOLVED Feb 27, 2015 Power Outage - RESOLVED Feb 2, 2015: Scheduled outage for www.lbl.gov, today.lbl.gov, newscenter.lbl.gov and other hosted wordpress sites - RESOLVED Dec 26, 2014: MAJOR IT OUTAGE COMPLETE *** - RESOLVED Aug 24, 2014: Following this morning's 6.0 Napa earthquake, Berkeley Lab staff are conducting a coordinated damage assessment of the Lab site. --Resolved July 11, 2014 2PM: We're making changes to www.lbl.gov, today.lbl.gov, and newscenter.lbl.gov - RESOLVED May 16, 2014: Scheduled downtime for www and several other applications until 9pm. - RESOLVED Mar 14, 2014 Minor Scheduled Maintenance 6-9pm, www.lbl.gov and selected additional systems.- RESOLVED Jan 17, 2014 Major outage of IT Systems scheduled for Friday Jan 17th 6pm-10pm More Most services restored by 8.30PM- RESOLVED Dec 30, 2013 at 12:15PM there was a problem during a scheduled electrical maintenance activity. Connectivity was restored at 4:05PM. - RESOLVED Dec 13, 2013 at 6PM - Major outage of IT provided services. information>>>- RESOLVED Nov 6, 2013: The power distribution hardware described in the incident this morning failed again around 12:30PM today, impacting www, mail delivery, commons, and many other services. It was resolved around 12:48.- RESOLVED Nov 6, 2013: We experienced an outage of www, commons, and email delivery due to the failure of a piece of power distribution hardware in the datacenter. Services have been restored. - RESOLVED April 2, 2012: LBNL experienced technical problem with the main Lab web server (www.lbl.gov) from 6:30pm to 7:00pm.- RESOLVED July 26, 2012: We conducted a test of our website disaster recovery procedure from 5:00pm to 5:15pm Thursday, July 26, 2012. During the test, users attempting to access www.lbl.gov were redirected to this site.- RESOLVED July 5, 2012: We conducted a test of our website disaster recovery procedure from 7:00pm to 7:15pm Thursday, July 5, 2012. During the test, users attempting to access www.lbl.gov were redirected to this site.- RESOLVED June 8, 2012: Due to an emergency outage, Berkeley Lab experienced a loss of Internet connectivity. Email, voicemail, and other IT services were impacted.- RESOLVED Dec 2-3 2011 Outage is Complete. All systems are operational. - RESOLVED For Google Apps for Berkeley Lab Status Information Click Here.
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