My info came from an article in which Richard Carpenter himself stated that had he NOT returned those masters on time, they wouldn't have perished in that fire.
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I watched an interview with Richard Carpenter from a few years back and he came out very adamantly that most, if not all of the Carpenters multitracks burned in this fire. He somewhat blamed himself and his punctuality as he felt it necessary to return the tapes he'd borrowed for the SACD project on time. Had he hung onto them for another week, they may not have burned.
As this article states and suggests, much more burned than initially reported