"But the most amazing, almost miraculous news is that the majority of the building is still intact. Due to one of the most astonishingly intelligent and professional pieces of strategy by the fire services, they succeeded in protecting the vast majority of the building, apparently by forming a human wall of firefighters up the west end of the main staircase and containing the fire."

Source : "Glasgow School of Art fire: 'iconic and unique library is lost'" by Kevin Rawlinson, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2014.

Muriel Gray

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