Disaster

A four-alarm fire destroyed more than 150 self-storage units on Sunday at a Public Storage facility in Laguna Hills, Calif. A passerby reported the fire at 3:22 a.m., bringing to the scene 100 firefighters who fought the blaze for more than four...

Update 4/26/18 – The female employee who was found unresponsive following a fire at Safeguard Self Storage has died, according to fire officials. Her name hasn’t been released, and the investigation into the cause of the fire is...

A resident manager and her family narrowly escaped a fire this week at Great American Self Storage in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. Kat Rauch and her husband, John, were awakened at about 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday by a fire alarm in their second-story dwelling...

Update 9/18/17 – Extra Space Storage announced that 219 of its properties in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina have reopened following Hurricane Irma. The sites total approximately 20 million net rentable square feet of storage in 173,000...

Update 9/5/17 – Connecticut-based Westy Self Storage and online storage marketplace SpareFoot have also announced programs to assist victims of Hurricane Harvey.Lockaway Storage, Metro Storage LLC and U-Haul International Inc. are among the...

A tornado that ripped through Katy, Texas, on Saturday morning caused serious damage to a self-storage facility, several homes and an auto dealership. The office of RV, Boat & Mini Storage at 27227 Katy Freeway was completely destroyed. Some...