Lead Stories's video: Fact Check: In A Fire Yale Library s System Would NOT Kill Those Inside With No Oxygen While

Read full story here: https://hoax-alert.leadstories.com/2021/02/fact-check-in-a-fire-yale-librarys-system-would-not-kill-those-inside-with-no-oxygen-while-saving-rare-books.html FACT CHECK: IN A FIRE, YALE LIBRARY'S SYSTEM WOULD NOT KILL THOSE INSIDE WITH NO OXYGEN WHILE PROTECTING RARE BOOKS Does a Yale Library have a fire-suppression system that, in a blaze, would leave anyone caught in the building to die without oxygen while rare books would be protected? No, that's not true: The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library does have a fire-suppression system designed to protect the precious books from fire -- but not at the expense of human lives. In 2010, the head of access services at the library, Stephen Jones, said that a combination of halon and Inergen gases could be pumped into the stacks to stop the combustion process, and thus stop the spread of fire.