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On the morning of April 29, 1986. An audio alarm activated by a smoke detector sounding at the Central Library. The library telephone operator called the fire department. Evacuation was complete in about eight minutes, as the library security directed employees and patrons in evacuation of the Central Library. In the seven and a half-hour blaze, it took three hundred firefighters to put it out. In this Los Angeles fire, what could have been one hundred and sixty million-dollar losses to a twenty-two million-dollar loss because of the Los Angeles City Fire Department limited the cost by extinguishing the fire. A phone Bank in space donated by Atlantic Richfield Co. to aid the salvage and restoration of the Central Library collection.Extinguishing the blaze required sixty fire stations, nine rescue ambulances, two helicopters, forty command officers and support personals. In addition, there were six mutual air companies from Las Angeles were used to use vacant stations where it was needed until fire prevention personnel and six apparatuses that were set aside to relieve the six mutual aids. A complement of over three hundred and fifty fire fighters and paramedics, and assistance from about every element of the Department. Approx
Because of water damage and moister from the water that was used to put out the fire. The first hundreds of thousand books were taken to a cold storage warehouse in large trucks where the books would be quickly frozen. This was so it would not prevent any formation of paper- threatening mold and mildew. Preservationists believe that books must be frozen within forty eight to seventy two hours to prevent extensive mold or mildew growth. In November of nineteen eighty-six another fire burst into flames on fifth and Hope street of the library. Someone spotted smoke from the second story window at six seventeen P.M. at night. When the hundred fire fighters arrived on the scene, they contained the fire into one room, and they had the blaze extinguished in about thirty minutes. The room that was lit was closed off to the public and didn’t have much of books and other library accessories. There was not much damage done this time. There was no official statement that this fire was arson, but investigators were watching spectators for anyone matching the description of a man reported by a witness to have set the April fire. The city library Commission recently selected the old Bullocks store at seventh and Hill streets to serve as an interim library while the damaged structure undergoes major refurbishing and expansion, planned before the April fir
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