Iris tried not to smile. "Of course, it isn't technically a disaster," she explained, "but I understand what you mean. How much information is lost?" Joel looked at her in dismay. "Lost? All of it! We had just saved the report and sent it to the department print server!" "Where did you save it," Iris asked.

"To your local drive or to the department share?" Joel tried to remember. "I think it was to the G: drive," he said. "Why?" "Well, the G: drive is on a machine at the end of the hall, which wasn't affected by this incident," Iris replied. "It's probably fine.

And if you did save it to your local drive, there's a high probability we can get it anyway, one way or another. I doubt the water damaged the hard drive itself." Iris paused for a moment, then continued: "We were lucky this time," she said. "No one was hurt, and if the fire had spread to the next room, where there are more valuable assets, things would have been much worse."

Discussion
1. Extrapolate on the case. At what point could this incident have been declared a disaster?

2. What would Iris have done differently if this adverse event had been much worse and had been declared a disaster?

3. Identify the procedures that Joel could have taken to minimize the potential loss in this incident. What would he need to do differently in the event of a disaster, if anything?