archives fires

[Richard Boyden <richard.boyden@sanbruno.nara.gov>]

I am posting this to ConsDistList today:

The U.S. Fire Administration has just posted its report in a major 1997
Chicago fire in a commercial records center that has caused many as yet
unanswered questions in the archives community.  Here is the URL:

http://www.usfa.fema.gov/techreps/tr106.htm

In addition the National Fire Protection Journal, March-April, 1998, ran an
article on the 1997 fire in the Iron Mountain records storage facility in
New Brunswick, NJ.   It destroyed 800,000 cubic feet of business
records of Fortune 500 companies' NY headquarters offices.  This fire
has attracted even more widespread attention than the Chicago.

Both facilities were protected by sprinkler systems.  Both articles raise
far more questions than they answer but are worth reading.
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