[ih] Fire at the Internet Archive in San Francisco

[Elizabeth Feinler]

Yes, the main structure was not damaged; however, it sounds (from the news) like the building next door was burned badly and that their scanning equipment was ruined.  Thank goodness no one was hurt, and the only archives lost were those being scanned at the time.

Jake.
On Nov 9, 2013, at 12:14 PM, Vint Cerf wrote:

> Brewster told me the fire was in an out-building or side-building. Some damage but apparently not entirely irreparable. they are still assessing.
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> On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Elizabeth Feinler <feinler at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Many of you are familiar with Brewster Kahle's Internet Archive in San Francisco.
> Last week it suffered a fire, details in the attached url, fyi.
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> Regards,
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> Jake Feinler
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> https://blog.archive.org/2013/11/06/scanning-center-fire-please-help-rebuild/
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