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Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Firemen were still fighting a fire after 24 hours, at a storage space where some 50,000 industrial companies’ archives are kept by the company Secur-archiv, 24 Heures reported late Friday afternoon 25 September.

The fire, noticed Thursday afternoon by two employees who called fireman after seeing flames at the Avenue de Provence company, is now being doused with water, says the newspaper. The company took over the storage area seven years ago from UBS, it reports, which also kept records there, but no longer does.

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News story, GenevaLunch, 25 September 2009.

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  1. GenevaLunch » Blog Archive » Fire in Lausanne under control but smoldering after 6 days Says:
    September 30th, 2009 at 4:28 pm

    [...] Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The fire that began in Lausanne Thursday 23 September in the storage space of an archiving firm was finally under control late [...]

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