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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 660335, member: 66&quot;]Brings back memories of my 1997 fire in my apartment.&nbsp; Not too much damage as far as the coins went, just my one per county Conder collection.&nbsp; Not melted but badly scorched including of a dozen mint state pieces and a handful of 18th century proofs.&nbsp; What hurt more though was my library.&nbsp; Had roughly 1000 items in the library and they were in the room the fire was in.&nbsp; The fire was small though and once it was out I was able to look in through the windows and see my library still sitting on the shelves apparently in good condition!&nbsp; Then the firemen came back in, threw all the books, magazines, auction catalogs etc out of the bookshelves onto the floor, soaked them down with water, walked around on them for awhile, pulled the ceiling down on them, soaked them again, and then finally walked around on them again for awhile.&nbsp; Only a few of the books were actually fire damaged, almost all the destruction was caused by the firemen.&nbsp; (Then after they left I went in and finished extinguishing the fire which was still burning.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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