April 30, 2007, was a day of "horror," for Ginnie Cooper, the District of Columbia's chief librarian. She shudders as she recalls the site of the Georgetown library cupola, engulfed in flames, crashing through the roof into the children's section. The heat was so intense that steel girders bent like licorice, and books were reduced to ashes, carried away by the wind like confetti.
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