The safe looks like a shipwrecked vessel. Its concrete casing has been scorched brown. Charred boards cover its top. A Sept. 25 fire destroyed Everett Office Furnitures longtime headquarters in downtown Everett. The business lost every piece of inventory except one: the fire safe. Inside its popped-open drawers, undamaged, lay the paperwork drawings, invoices, receipts, records that ensured the small company could survive. “We had several large projects in process,” Everett Office Furniture owner Brian Hollingshead said.
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