From the front page of the report This is Report 021 of the Major Fires Investigation Project conducted by TriData Corporation under contract EMW 8 4321 to the United States Fire Administration Federal Emergency Management Agency Based on this I would say that it is more likely than not that the report is NOT public domain and that we ll need to trash the bulk of the article Only works produced by federal government employees as part of their work are PD not generally works produced under contract We need to contact FEMA to confirm and potentially take action If it does turn out to be PD there are a number of good photographs inside that we could use