Did you hear about the document storage facility near Chicago that went up in flames yesterday?

[ARPad95]

Last edited Fri Feb 4, 2022, 09:55 PM - Edit history (1)

Still burning.

https://abc7chicago.com/bartlett-il-fire-today-warehouse-access/11537202/

Intense flames engulfed the 250,000 square foot warehouse in the 1200-block of Humbracht Circle in Brewster Creek Business Park, used by a document storage company called Access.

Officials said the warehouse was stacked floor to ceiling with boxes of documents, providing ample fuel for the fire.

What workers said began as a few boxes on fire grew into an inferno.

https://www.accesscorp.com/location/illinois/bartlett/

Offsite Storage and Document Storage in Bartlett, IL

Store physical documents and other media in a highly secure, offsite storage facility near you. Access' records storage facilities are equipped with state-of-the-art security protocols that monitor and protect your records 24/7.

We provide climate-controlled, weather- and fire-protected facilities for both paper and multimedia records. Keep film, video, x-rays, and tape backups from deteriorating due to environmental exposure and handling factors.

And if that’s not secure enough: Consider underground storage vaults. These facilities are located hundreds of feet below ground to keep your business-critical records safe.

Edited to remove any reference to a Reddit group.

[brooklynite]

1. Provide evidence that the documents were SET ablaze....

...or acknowledge that this is another lazy conspiracy theory. Nothing in the story remotely indicates WHAT documents were stored there, so there's no basis for assuming a need to destroy documents, other that jump to a "we know THEY would...." assertion.

[ARPad95]

4. I edited my OP to add this:

https://www.accesscorp.com/location/illinois/bartlett/

Offsite Storage and Document Storage in Bartlett, IL

Store physical documents and other media in a highly secure, offsite storage facility near you. Access' records storage facilities are equipped with state-of-the-art security protocols that monitor and protect your records 24/7.

We provide climate-controlled, weather- and fire-protected facilities for both paper and multimedia records. Keep film, video, x-rays, and tape backups from deteriorating due to environmental exposure and handling factors.

And if that’s not secure enough: Consider underground storage vaults. These facilities are located hundreds of feet below ground to keep your business-critical records safe.

[brooklynite]

5. And there's still no evidence of intent in the story.

[ARPad95]

6. I'll remove any reference to the Reddit group. I just happened upon it by chance when doing research

on a biomedical company. An investor of the company seems to be a person of ill repute at the Reddit group.

[Demovictory9]

2. I've worked for companies that used that type of service... iron mountain. boxes and boxes of crap

stored away

[Captain Zero]

3. Probably LOTS OF DIFFERENT VARIOUS DOCS, BUT

AMONG them was something very specific and sensitive to some very bad person that they needed it to be gone. And they had the means to burn it up and everything not related to it that was around it. Making it look random was part of the operation to destroy it.

[vanlassie]

7. Didn't that happen at Trump Tower?

[brooklynite]

8. No. a fire occurred in an apartment because of shoddy electrical work.

[vanlassie]

9. In Trump Tower?

[brooklynite]

11. Yes.

Fire at Trump Tower leaves man dead and 6 firefighters injured

The fire on the 50th floor of the New York City highrise left one man dead and six firefighters injured, the FDNY said. The victim was identified as Todd Brassner, 67.

Police identified the man killed as Todd Brassner, 67, a resident of the building’s 50th floor. He was taken to the hospital in critical condition but later died, said spokeswoman Angelica Conroy of the Fire Department.

...snip...

Brassner’s apartment was valued at $2.5 million, according to bankruptcy documents from 2015. Brassner had an extensive collection of prized works of art, including a portrait of himself by Andy Warhol, as well as hundreds of guitars and ukeleles, according to the bankruptcy documents.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/07/us/trump-tower-fire/index.html

[brooklynite]

10. OR (just spitballing here), a company that got a contract from the Cook County government....

...did a lousy job of protecting paper records.

[global1]

12. Oops!!!! .... nt

[cbabe]

13. St. Louis VA storage facility fire in 1973 destroyed

16-18 million military records of veterans from 1912-1960.

VA using this as an ongoing excuse to deny benefits as veterans can’t prove their service deployments/actions.

(Happened to a friend. He finally received benefits after a 20 year battle with the VA because a book was written featuring his combat experience so the VA could no longer deny his deployment.)

I wonder what was stored in this place?

[Jacson6]

14. I hope the business didn't have a "Your documents are guaranteed to be safe!" slogan