On a side note -- One article I saw stated that a contributing factor to both the disaster AND to the saving of many of the Relics was a planned renovation of the entire structure.
Said plans meant that most of the Relics had already been moved to a safer location. The enaction of said renovation plans may have been what caused the fire in the first place (e.g. materials or chems left out where they should not have been -- the latter caused a beloved restaurant back in NOLA to be gutted just a few months after they had rebuilt from Katrina's damage. Someone left a rag soaked in cleaning fluid A in a bucket of fluid B rather than washing and dumping the items, respectively; the result: a conflagration).
Said plans meant that most of the Relics had already been moved to a safer location. The enaction of said renovation plans may have been what caused the fire in the first place (e.g. materials or chems left out where they should not have been -- the latter caused a beloved restaurant back in NOLA to be gutted just a few months after they had rebuilt from Katrina's damage. Someone left a rag soaked in cleaning fluid A in a bucket of fluid B rather than washing and dumping the items, respectively; the result: a conflagration).
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