[Nhcoll-l] fire in the Pringle Herbarium

[Kevin Winker]

Whew! Thanks for the update. I'm sure our whole community was feeling your
alarm that things might be much worse.

I hope that you might keep us posted on how specimens in cabinets fared
from smoke penetration, how insurance worked/didn't work, etc. I am glad
that we have so few case studies in collection damage, but everything we
can learn about how to prevent and respond is good knowledge to have.

Regards, K.

On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 2:12 PM, Michael Sundue <sundue at gmail.com> wrote:

> Good people,
>
> Thank you all for being in touch and being concerned about the Pringle
> Herbarium.   I am delighted to report that I have been inside the building
> with the UVM and fire department people and discovered that as far as I
> could tell from an admittedly rapid survey ALL of our accessioned
> collection is secure and dry.   As you might imagine, the building is a
> mess— water everywhere and holes punched through the walls and roof, but we
> have our Herbarium and we will simply move on in our work, if somewhat
> impeded in the nearterm.
>
> You might be interested to know that the firemen spread waterproof tarps
> over the uppermost collection cabinets before they turned on the hoses. We
> are also impressed with their incredible work.
>
> again, thank you all for reaching out,
>
> Dave
>
> David S. Barrington
> Professor of Plant Biology
> Curator, Pringle Herbarium
> Univ. of Vermont
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> On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 10:53 AM Debra Trock <dtrock at calacademy.org> wrote:
>
>> From the Herbarium list-serve:  there is a fire in the building that
>> houses the University of Vermont's Pringle Herbarium - approximately
>> 300,000 specimens.
>>
>>
>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.usnews.com_news_best-2Dstates_vermont_articles_&d=DwIFaQ&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=LpYc_Z_iN1KRw0hheb3x6-8MJUMu482qfHowpGYJqwc&m=Hti0UTikNKY1o1uK3vmPxv3AH5Gd0WT9aUtV1KeYqAU&s=diC2SqLYed_XsbpgN1cEFlcmaccxhXoBVks8pVSpXB4&e= 
>> 2017-08-03/fire-in-u-of-vt-building-that-houses-plant-department
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>>
>>
>> Dr. Debra Trock
>> *Director of Science Collections &*
>> *Senior Collections Manager, Botany*
>> California Academy of Sciences
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