I remember earlier this year having a conversation with a coworker about a recent fire at a nearby restaurant.
“That’s the 2nd time they had a fire,” I remarked, and endeavored to get a time frame. You know it was like pulling teeth to get any information at all about the first fire. I eventually dug up some forum post- there was a blurry 2008-era cell phone photo of the fire, but the date of the post was a few days after the incident. Still could not nail down the exact date the fire occurred.
You’d think a fire would be well-documented, but the Memory Hole swallows all!