Photo albums are probably OK, but would your insurers be happy to be told you had been keeping highly inflammatory substances (like negatives) in the safe with your other documents?
JimB. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wayne Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 2:47 PM Subject: Re: The "simple" truth about security > At 09:17 AM 5/26/2005, James Button typed: > >The 'concern' is that many 'fire safes' are rated for 2 or so hours at a > >temperature near that of wood/paper burning. > > It takes much less heat to render tapes unusable so such a safe would keep > tapes safe for only 30 min. We have a large fire safe in our bedroom for > holding all kinds of paper & the riskiest thing we have in there are photo > albums. For anything requiring more safety we have a safe deposit box at > our bank where I keep CDs, DVDs & tapes that I rotate the contents > frequently. Most of the stuff would be of no value to anyone else but to us > that's a different story. > > The green stuff we of course keep under our mattress. <lol> > > > ----------+---------- > Wayne D. Johnson > Ashland, OH, USA 44805 > <http://www.wavijo.com> > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > ALL messages to the list MUST include a descriptive subject. > To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: > CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required. > > -- ---------------------------------------- ALL messages to the list MUST include a descriptive subject. To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
