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Re: NFPA article
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Date: 
Sat, 8 Jan 2000 11:36:34 GMT
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> Apparently one night after closing, a fire started (speculation is that
> a bulb was too close to some boxes or some such) in the storage area. A
> great deal of the sets melted together, literally, from the heat. ALL of
> them were smoke damaged. I have seen some of the melted bricks. Pretty
> bizarre (although probably not art, per se :-) ). No comment on who
> showed me.
> 
> I opine that you could smell the smell of burnt ABS in that whole end of
> the mall for several weeks afterward.
> 
> Given the number of melted sets, my supposition is that the fire burned
> for a while before it was suppressed. Given that they took basically
> everything out of the storage area down to bare walls and dumpstered all
> of it,  per hearsay, I assume everything was damaged.

I would tend to think that it was not as well supressed as the store.  I'll
take another look at the article on monday.

James



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(...) I took another look at the article today, and there is nothing mentioned about the fire. It took place last summer right? I would tend to guess that this article had been written a long time ago, and held as a "information" type article. They (...) (27 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)

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(...) Everything I say is hearsay that I am repeating and I will not attribute the source. As I understand it, the LIC has a storage area which is, essentially, under the store. This storage area is connected to the loading docks at the south side (...) (27 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)

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