Just thought I would pass on our experience last night. We do not have access to the common property switch room – only the Executive Chairman has access. I am in a small over 55's strata complex. Our electricity went off and all the 'alarms' started buzzing in the complex around 9pm last night. On inspection, we could smell the burning coming from the switch room situated near the lift, however, the Exec Chairman was not home so no one could open the door. We had to call 000 and the fireman came out, opened the door, smoke billowing out to find fuses had 'melted' and 4 units were affected (including ours) with ours of course being one of the apartments. We then had to phone Sydney Energy who came out so we were back online in 2-3 hours. Cold but ok. What is the moral of the story? Do we need the EC….should we all have keys? (as David said could be an OH&S issue), should someone be given a key if the key holder goes out? I thought that we handled the situation rather well but there are flaws to the process and I am not sure what the answer is.