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Rare Documents Saved As Karpeles Museum Officials Pick Up The Pieces After Fire
Inspectors are going through the rubble of a historic-document museum in St. Louis trying to find the cause of a fire that heavily damaged the building. The former church in south city has been home to the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum since 2015.
“As far as the actual exhibits, we saved those,” said museum director Kerry Manderbach.
“I pulled the exhibits out myself, and the firefighters were also pulling things out right and left,” he added.
Many of those firefighters picked up manuscripts and other documents as they raced out of the building when it appeared the ceiling was going to collapse.
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