>It also could, and hopefully does, mean that the fire was in a
>stairwell.

A fine hope, but unfortunately, my original guess seems to have been right. According to the Bangor Daily News, it was in the bound periodicals stacks. They lost about 50 volumes to the fire itself, and an unspecified further number damaged by fire extinguisher chemicals and water. Someone managed to put the fire out before the sprinklers went off and ruined everything in the room, but they did prestage (dry-pipe system) and one of the pipes leaked. :/

There's a lot of very obscure stuff in the bound periodicals stacks at the Fogler. A lot of those volumes had probably never been looked at once since they were prepared and shelved there... but someday, someone's going to need something that was in one of them, and it won't be available. That makes me sad and angry.

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