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Default What would cause lots of MCBs to trip together?

Three phase DB. Turned up and tried to turn the lights on, to find that all the MCBs controlling circuits with lights (and some without), plus a submain that also had a lights circuit running from the secondary DB, we're off.

The only possibly explanation I can think of is that someone had turned them all off, because they were blindly trying to turn off the lights after working there and hadn't noticed the timer override master switch. Problem with that theory is that in order to turn the lights on in the first place they would have had to know about the override switch!

Is there any possible electrical fault which could trip half a dozen circuits and leave no signs, a maximum of 24 hours since the lights were circuits were last on. There was no evidence of water leakage.
 
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