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Re: UPDATE: NARA Fire



Thanks, Carol.

Ann

>>> Peter Kurilecz <PAKURILECZ@AOL.COM> 04/12 8:32 PM >>>
Here is a press release concerning the arrest of the suspected arsonist in
the NARA fire
<snip>
Arrest Follows Fire at Washington National Records Center
U.S. Newswire
12 Apr 16:12
Arrest Follows Fire at Washington National Records Center
To: National Desk
Contact: National Archives Press Office, 301-713-6000

COLLEGE PARK, Md., April 12 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The National
Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has been informed that
this morning the Federal Protective Service arrested a NARA
employee, Marlon M. Mason, charging him with arson in connection
with a fire on April 5 in the Washington National Records Center
operated by NARA in Suitland, Md. The accused employee was turned
over to the Fire Marshall of Prince George's County, Md.

The fire was discovered by employees in a stack area at the
records center, where NARA stores records that are no longer needed
by federal agencies in their Washington area offices, but remain in
the agencies' legal custody. NARA employees and contract guards
extinguished the fire with hand-held fire extinguishers and were
subsequently assisted by the Prince George's Fire Department. No
one was injured by the fire, and damage was limited by a few boxes
of records, which NARA staff is attempting to salvage.

This fire followed one that broke out in the same records
center on Feb. 29. That, too, caused some records damage, but was
contained and extinguished without harm to anyone in the building.

NARA employs the accused employee part time as an archives aide.
He has worked for NARA since Dec. 27, 1994.

For press information, contact the National Archives public
affairs staff at 301-713-6000.
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Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
pakurilecz@aol.com 

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