City archive building collapses in Cologne

[Husar]

one more reason to make digital copies of them all that can be stored redundantly in different places, still nice to have the original but that way at least the texts wouldn't be lost.

The former manager also said he notified the authorities about cracks in the basement some time ago but nothing was done, for now one can just hope that they won't find any dead people inside although some are still missing from what I heard...

edit: I just noticed under the caption in your link it says:

CNN iReporter Andreas Gress [...]

So they're using apple reporters now?