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Large fires that result in great cultural loss still happen... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Universal_Studios_fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Uni

• mmsc 5y ago
  The 1937 and 1965 fox/mgm fires should have been a wakeup call for better archival methods.
• jcrawfordor 5y ago
  A little less recently and less literary, the 1973 National Personnel Records Center fire destroyed an enormous number of US Army and Air Force military service records and continues to cause great frustration to historians and genealogists. Newer National Archives facilities, such as the one in San Bruno, are built in a bunker-like fashion in order to prevent damage and contain fires.