As an alternative to buying safes, why not create a high-quality scanned
image of each document, and store the originals in a highly-secure,
well-protected storage facility?
After all, if a fire large enough, and sufficiently long-lived takes down
your entire building, your fire-resistant (as Larry Medina pointed out, not
fire-proof) safe may not survive. Then you have no backup.
Best regards.
Fred Grevin
Director, Office of Records and Archives Management
The City of New York
Department of Environmental Protection
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Sent: Tue Apr 24 17:04:11 2007
Subject: [RM] Fireproof File Cabinet
Hello everyone, I've been away from the listserv for the past couple of
years, but am now returning. I am the Records Manager for the law firm
of Dickstein Shapiro in Washington, DC. A request was recently made by
one of our groups at the firm to purchase a fire proof file cabinet for
the storage of small quantities of hardcopy vital records that require
frequent access. We are in a new facility with pretty high-tech
fire/smoke detection and sprinkler systems.
Two questions:
1. Theoretically, nothing is ever going to get "torched" before it is
soaked, correct?
2. Are the fire proof safes also protected against water, if so are
there any specs available to assist with selecting the proper cabinet?
Thanks for your time.
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