🚀 go-pugleaf

bogus address wrote:
> Steve West has been an occasional poster to ed.general & UK Mac groups
> for a while.  His company's offices were directly above the Gilded
> Balloon venue, which yesterday became the seat of the biggest fire to
> hit the Edinburgh city centre for about 20 years; it was still burning
> this afternoon.  If I saw things correctly through the smoke from the
> cordon a block away at the top of Blair Street, I was watching the
> burned-out shell of The Graphics Company's office being deluged with
> water from two snorkels at once.  Because of its location and the scale
> of the damage, it looks like they'll have to knock the building down at
> once, with the entire contents being a write-off.
> 
> Steve, are you okay?
> 
> Did you manage to save anything? - a graphic design firm must be about
> the most fire-vulnerable line of business there is.
> 
> Anything we can do to help?


Hi there Jack

I'm fine, just exhausted from a week of starting the rebuilding of our 
business. Our offices were completely destroyed.

All of our important data, including our design work was backed-up 
off-site. Our tape drive saved our business and seven people's jobs.

Sorry to come late to this thread. I was just alerted to it by Ivor 
Gleek on uk.adverts.mac

Thanks for the offer of help. I'll let you know if anything occurs to me.

all the best

Steve West