No, it wasn't... but the nature of fires is that it easily could have been, given the right (or wrong) circumstances.
Clearly what you are storing (images, text) merits consideration of the archiving techniques used. Honestly, I believe that if it is a text document, even written in longhand, ASCII is fine, HTML is probably better. OCR with manual checking behind it is optimum. 2-D high-quality scans of images and paintings, and 3-D laser scans of objects. All of this is do-able today.
But what's important is that it makes more sense to do this now, then to wait until documents are damaged and try to apply the extensive, expensive, painfully difficult mechanations and digital manipulation needed to recover them.
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