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The hotly contested debate about continuing to include records center compartmentation in the upcoming revision of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) NFPA 232 Standard for the Protection of Records 2000 Edition took two surprising twists late last month.
As explained in the recent Information Management Journal article "Records Under Fire" (November/ December 2002), NFPA 232 defines compartmentation as "the subdivision of a building into relatively small areas so that fire or smoke can be confined to the room or section in which it originates. It requires that firewalls separate storage compartments and that in records centers, the maximum storage volume of records should not exceed 250,000 cubic feet in a single compartment.
The NFPA technical committee (TC) working on the revision of...