Some advice I heard was to keep important docs in the lower half of the room to reduce fire damage risk, because heat goes up if you go higher. Other than that, most storage containers don’t seem to help a lot against fire, unfortunately.
If you store the documents lower, water is a higher risk though.
If you are looking for fireproof safes, these types technically don’t let the flame in, but they get so hot that the documents turn to dust apparently. You generally need a lot bigger safe to be able to be thick enough to disperse heat
For theft, you also need a super heavy or bolted down safe or they will just take the whole safe.
Safes Re expensive stuff, sadly.
I assume these safes all have a tight seal. If you put a case or two of water on top would it keep it cool as the fire melts the bottles open one by one?
This idea came from an old Minecraft trick where we put ice blocks in our building’s attics to slow fire spread on a MMO server.
No idea, but it wouldn’t be something I was willing to stake precious documents on.
Anything you can physically remove from the building is not a safe place to keep valuables.
