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Flooding Closes RI Health Dept.

Chris Boardman

Story Created: Feb 8, 2010 at 9:41 AM EDT

Story Updated: Feb 8, 2010 at 9:41 AM EDT

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A Rhode Island Department of Public
Health facility in Providence has been closed to the public because
of flooding.

A department spokeswoman says the Cannon Building at 3 Capitol
Hill flooded over the weekend because of burst pipes and will be
closed to the public Monday.

Equipment and documents in many offices were damaged, including in the Office of Vital Records, which keeps birth, death and
marriage records.

Agency employees are being told to show up for work to help
identify documents that have been damaged.

The Medical Examiner's office and laboratories are housed in a
separate building that was not affected.

It's unclear when the Cannon Building will reopen.

(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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Wednesday, Feb 10 at 2:40 AM Anonymous wrote ...

Kenny, you're exactly right. Nobody was in the building. It's a state office on the weekend. You know state workers love their mon-fri 9-5 jobs. Apart from that, nobody is there. So it must have started overnight. It's very easy for pipes to freeze in this weather. Check out science.

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Monday, Feb 8 at 5:19 PM kenny cool wrote ...

look at the facts, if you think I'm kidding, try this, every lie, has some fact....Hitler said if we feed them enough lies the will in return believe what we are telling them. The article said over the weekend, equipment and documents were damaged, your telling me nobody was in the building when the pipe burst, or no alarm was sounded? It just takes 2 minutes to turn the main off......something stinks

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Monday, Feb 8 at 12:34 PM Rhody wrote ...

Now they are going to say, the Obama plan of keeping health record electrically is safe. Reject healthcare reform and stop the abuse it would create.

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Monday, Feb 8 at 10:20 AM ROTFLMAO wrote ...

Kenny, you need to up your meds.

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Monday, Feb 8 at 10:15 AM Angela Warwick wrote ...

You have got to be kidding...

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Monday, Feb 8 at 10:03 AM kenny cool wrote ...

what we have here is conspiracy, someone did not want some of those records to be on record, it happened the same way in a St. Louis fire, were some folks, really didn't want their service records released or made available, so why not burn them. If my memory serves me correct, the same thing happened at the attorney's office for the defendants of the Station Fire, play these odds - what are the chances that a water pipe would burst any other time?

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