After years of examining our behavior I have come to realize we are  
like the Genome Project where thousands of computers were used to  
provide computing power for decoding the human genome.  Here we have  
at any given time 1200+ Records Managers; expert at searching  
libraries, the web, University Sites on a global basis.  An amazing  
amount of knowledge and computing power.

Given that this List has that ability I am here to ask for help in  
filling in some holes.

Now I pay pretty good attention to fires and catastrophic  
destruction.  I fight with Corporations, Museums, Colleges, Counties,  
Town Halls, etc. on increasing their level of protection for their  
records centers and vaults.

To further show my perversion on the topic, I belong to the NFPA 232  
Technical Committee on Protection of Records.  But I wish to  
determine just what level of risk exists for records stored in large  
records centers.

My recollection of large fires in records centers, by progression, in  
the last decade run to the following:

Recall (Brambles) in Illinois
Iron Mountain in New Jersey (3 sites on three days)
Diversified Records in Pennsylvania
Richards & Richards (This was actually fairly small due to their  
design and quick management action.)
9/11 as there were several records repositories within the site.
?? Large Records Center in Lyon, France(Could our French members  
provide the names)
Iron Mountain in Ottawa, Canada
Iron Mountain Fire in London, UK
NARA has had several fires, varying sizes
Archive America in Florida

Can anyone add any records center fires of large scale that I have  
missed?

Have any corporate records centers burned?

I am compiling records along with fire reports to determine what can  
be done to limit destruction.  Clearly arson has proved unstoppable.  
Or so they say!

But a familiarity with every fire would be of value.

Hugh Smith
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