Two staff members from the Preservation program in St. Louis experienced quite a case of déj&
Two staff members from the Preservation program in St. Louis experienced quite a case of déjà vu last month. The staff were set to present at a statewide museums and archives conference in St. Joseph, Missouri about the preservation work being done on burned military records from the 1973 NPRC-St. Louis fire. The night before the staff were set to speak, a fire broke out in an older building a block north of their hotel. (See photo) Visitors in the hotel were evacuated, as embers from the fire were floating northward and managed to set another building’s roof on fire. Nobody was hurt thanks to the quick response of the fire department, but it was definitely a tense situation! Nobody knows better than the Preservation Program at St. Louis about the devastation that fire can wreak on buildings and the items within those buildings. As our staff works every day to preserve the records of the past, it is our hope that no other archive or museum has to experience such a destructive event. Our hearts go out to those in Tennessee and elsewhere who have been effected by the recent wildfires. -- source link
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