These questions were developed by the Department of Public Safety to help guide you to finding a safe rental property. Fire - the building will probably still be there, but your records may not be Each year, faculty and staff at UC experience a disaster. Maybe not the kind of disaster that Hollywood makes movies about, but a disaster nonetheless. Look around your office, and think about what would happen if a pipe in the ceiling were to burst, drenching everything in the room. Perhaps a short circuit in a computer monitor, starting a fire that coats everything in corrosive soot.
Floods caused by broken pipes can occur without warning in any building.
We are particularly vulnerable in the winter. A few years ago freezing weather burst a six inch water line in the CAS library. Beside the damages to the library, the bookstore located below had a foot of water cascade over all of their stock. Inadvertent fire sprinkler activation and roof leaks are also sources of water damage. Theft is perhaps the disaster you can do the most to avoid, but there is no absolute protection.