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June 2009

News and Information

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These are your recent campus fire news headlines.

SLV students prevent serious school fire
Scotts Valley/San Lorenzo Valley Press-Banner - Felton,CA,USA
The trio said they tried to pull a fire alarm on campus to no avail before locating the school custodian, Mark Lust, who used a power-washer to extinguish ...

Falls fire displaces 3 Niagara U students
Buffalo News - NY, United States
NIAGARA FALLS—A fire displaced three Niagara University students early Friday, according to the city Fire Department. The blaze, which began on a second- ...

Fire Destroys UWGB Apartments
WGBA-TV - Green Bay,WI,USA
"Never a good time to have a fire on a college campus," said UWGB's Mike Heine. School officials are working on alternate housing for the kids who were ...

Frat member pleads guilty in relation to fire
Lincoln Journal Star - Lincoln,Nebraska,USA
... of Nebraska-Lincoln's Lambda Chi Alpha chapter pleaded guilty last week for his role in the starting of a fire at the fraternity house in February. ...

Fire destroys UWGB dorm
CBS 5 - Green Bay - WI
Green Bay (WFRV)- An early morning fire has destroyed a dorm on the campus of UW-Green Bay. According to fire department officials, the fire broke out just ...

NIU Fraternity House Fire
WIFR - Rockford,IL,USA
Investigators remain on the scene of a fire that broke at a fraternity house on Northern Illinois University's campus. It started at about five fire at the ...

Three-alarm blaze damages Bethany University cafeteria
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
Bethany University is insured and has a reserve fund for dorm construction that may be used to rebuild the building, Shelton said. ...

Student injured in apartment oil fire
Central Florida Future - Orlando,FL,USA
A grease fire broke out on the third floor of Building 9 at Pegasus Landing on Tuesday. Melissa Walsh, a sophomore at Valencia Community College, ...

In Case of Fire, Do Not Use Twitter [Pic]
Mashable - San Francisco,CA,USA
Even the parody isn't so new: in May, the satirical news site The Onion joked that a dorm room fire “was quickly located and extinguished by authorities ...

Gas leak breaks out near University of Utah
KSL-TV - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
The Salt Lake City Fire Department blocked off a lot of the area as a precaution. Questar Gas stopped the leak and replaced the gas line. ...

Fire scare, evacuation disrupts SSCC exams
Wilmington News Journal, OH - Wilmington,OH,USA
Students at Southern State Community College's north campus got an unexpected break while taking their final exams Thursday afternoon. The Wilmington Fire ...

Cal Poly Pomona fraternity suspended in hazing incident
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
He said the blindfolds were removed and gasoline was splashed on the fire for dramatic effect but some got on a student, who suffered second-degree burns to ...

Muncie police seek arsonist
WTHR - Indianapolis,IN,USA
It was early Sunday morning when investigators say that someone set fire to a ... including one near another fraternity and at this campus rental house. ...

200 years later, college arsonist found?
Baltimore Sun - United States
Though his whereabouts at the time of the fire in December 1795 are unknown, she said, O'Kelly had been to the college for church meetings. ...

Student arrested in 5 blasts at school
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA
... Fire-Rescue Department. Three of them, also in trash cans, did not explode and were detonated by the department's bomb squad after students left campus. ...

Student Burned During Fraternity Hazing Incident
KTLA - Los Angeles,CA,USA
The blindfolded students were positioned around a large bonfire, and as their blindfolds were removed, gasoline was doused onto the fire for "dramatic ...

Briefly: Peabody Place fire started in vent for grill
DeSoto Appeal - Memphis,TN,USA
No one was reported injured in the fire. The station is located on the University of Memphis South Campus at Park and Getwell. Arts and Crafts, a petting ...

May 2009

Fire at Whitwood college building
Pontefract and Castleford Express - Castleford,England,UK
FIREFIGHTERS were called out to a blaze at the old Whitwood college site this morning (Sunday). Crews from Castleford, Pontefract, Featherstone and ...

Students Arrested For Setting Fire To Car On Campus
TheDenverChannel.com - Denver,CO,USA
The vehicle belonged to the campus supervisor, who works at the high school and helps with security issues but is not a security officer, ...

Safe dormitories and boarding houses
Tempo - Manila,Philippines
Is there proper compliance with the National Building Code in terms of structural integrity? How are boards protected from fire? Are fire exits in place? ...

West University requiring fire sprinklers on new homes
KHOU - Houston,TX,USA
“It makes a residence safer,” said West University Fire Chief Steve Ralls. “The fire sprinkler will keep it in check or extinguish it before it gets big. ...

Some Meadville properties will avoid city's inspection program
Meadville Tribune - Meadville,PA,USA
All other non-transient residential rental units, including fraternity houses, ... for student housing are not subject to annual fire inspection by the city.

Fake fire staged in college dorm; 3 arrested
msnbc.com - USA
Scifo was a kicker on the football team last season, but has transferred to a college in Florida, officials said. In an e-mail Tuesday, Dortch referred ...

Wright State loses power, Internet after fire, lightning strike
Dayton Daily News - Dayton,OH,USA
Campus police officers are posted at the buildings to alert students, faculty and staff that they are closed. The Fairborn Fire Department responded to the ...

Residence hall fire extinguished by Miami officer
Oxford Press - Oxford,OH,USA
By Ryan Gauthier The Oxford Fire Department responded to reports of a small fire in the basement of a Miami University residence hall this afternoon, ...

Fire breaks out at Mesa State Library
KJCT8.com - Grand Junction,CO,USA
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VU dad upset with handling of arson
Gary Post Tribune - Gary,IN,USA
By James D. Wolf Jr. VALPARAISO -- A Valparaiso University student arrested for arson appears to have had a fascination with fire for two months. ...

Hazmat scare at Apple campus
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
Morrissey said Santa Clara County fire crews went to Apple's Building 4 on De Anza Boulevard at about 3:30 pm after they were notified of the suspicious ...

Seton Hall Dorm Arsonist Out on Parole
NBC Philadelphia - Philadelphia,PA,USA
By TAMARA VOSTOK AP Sean Ryan served just 16 months behind bars for setting the Seton Hall dorm fire in 2000. It's impossible to erase the Seton Hall dorm ...

Fire may have given boost to Our Lady of the Lake University in ...
Denton Record Chronicle - Denton,TX,USA
... looked grim last May 6 when a fire caused the roof of its Gothic-style main building to collapse into dorm rooms, causing $15 million worth of damage. ...

Ex-UT housekeeper gets probation for setting Humes Hall fires
Knoxville News Sentinel - Knoxville,TN,USA
Defendant Amy Michelle Ellis, 26, was a housekeeper at UT's Humes Hall dorm for women. It is undisputed that she set fire to a chair in the middle of an ...

State fire marshal finds code violations at 2 UT frat houses
WBIR-TV - Knoxville,TN,USA
The state fire marshal found code violations at two University of Tennessee fraternity houses. If the issues are not corrected, the residents will be forced ...

Fire at South Campus apartment contained late Friday night, cause ...
SU The Daily Orange (subscription) - Syracuse,NY,USA
A fire broke out late Friday night on the second floor of 181 No. 2 Farm Acre Road at approximately 11:50 pm No one was injured, said Lt. Edward Weber of ...

April 2009

Power mishap forces 1800 out of dorm
Boston Globe - United States
... dormitory last night after a large electrical cable blew out of the socket in the school's mechanical room, said Steve MacDonald of the Boston Fire ...

Fire causes about $10000 damage at New Creations
Palladium-Item - Richmond,IN,USA
A Saturday morning fire did about $10000 damage to a dormitory at New Creations, 6400 US 40 East. Richmond fire fighters responded to a call at 8:15 am and ...

Penn Student to be Charged with Starting a Fire in a Dorm
KYW1060.com - Philadelphia,PA,USA
A University of Pennsylvania student has been arrested for allegedly starting a fire early Wednesday morning in a high-rise dorm. ...

Fire at Lamar dorm room out, students safe
Beaumont Enterprise - Beaumont,tx,USA
Residents of all buildings except Building One, where the fire occurred, were allowed back inside by just after 9 pm The fire encompassed one dorm room, ...

New Creations fire does $10000 damage
Palladium-Item - Richmond,IN,USA
Richmond fire fighters responded to a call at 8:15 am and extinguished a fire 0that melted the metal and wood siding from one of the campus' dorms. ...

Explosion on campus injures grad student
Observer Online - IN,USA
The student was taken to a local hospital in an ambulance after the Notre Dame Fire Department responded. Flory said the student had been mixing a non-toxic ...

• Two small arson fires reported at Phelps Hall on EMU campus
The Ann Arbor News - MLive.com - Ann Arbor,MI,USA
by Tom Gantert | The Ann Arbor News Two small arson fires occurred at Phelps Hall on the Eastern Michigan University Campus in the past three days, ...

Police Brief 04/14/09
MSU State News - East Lansing,MI,USA
... 20-year-old male student who was walking to his dorm in West Akers Hall. An MSU police officer arrived and used a fire extinguisher to put the fire out. ...

Healthy step for fraternities, CU
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
Stine says the 15 fraternities have established relationships with the Boulder police and fire departments and have come up with many safety-oriented ...

After fire, frat plans to return to house
The Daily Collegian Online - University Park,PA,USA
A house inspection on Wednesday resulted in a list of items to be fixed, including a nonfunctioning fire alarm in one of the bedrooms, said Sandy Deveney, ...

Fire Engines Rushed to False Alarm at Lamar Campus
KBMT ABC 12 - Port Arthur,TX,USA
Three fire engines rushed to Brooks Hall at Lamar University for a possible structure fire on Friday, April 3, 2009. The call came in about 2:30p.m. but ...

A father remembers his UW-Stout student son lost in fire, and a ...
Leader-Telegram - Eau Claire,WI,USA
Al's' 23-year-old son, Scott, was one of three UW-Stout students who died in an off-campus house fire on April 5, 2008, while they slept in separate ...

Dorm cleanup leads to more damages
N.C. State University Technician Online - Raleigh,NC,USA
“I’m still waiting for the fire marshal’s report.” Kronenwetter said he and his roommate are now living elsewhere in Sullivan, but some of his suitemates ...

Partial campus evacuation caused by projector malfunction
The Advocate - Mt. Hood,OR,USA
According to an e-mail from Public Safety Supervisor Don Oliver, the fire alarm and evacuation shortly after 11 am was the result of a ceiling mounted LCD ...

Dorm Fires Investigated At PSU
WMUR - Manchester,NH,USA
The fire alarm sounded shortly after 4 am Friday morning in Smith Hall. As 260 students were evacuating all seven floors, firefighters found a trash can ...

Dorm catches fire, students evacuated
Daily Sundial - Northridge,CA,USA
A Los Angeles City fire truck backs away from the dorm buildings late Wednesday night. Residents said a rules-and-regulations poster caught fire and they ...

Fire departments train on building collapse
Sand Mountain Reporter - Albertville,AL,USA
The classes will culminate Sunday, with a realistic exercise to be held on Snead State Community College campus at the old Pfeiffer Hall dormitory.

Some landlords oppose mandatory inspections
The News Record - Cincinnati,OH,USA
... any problems with their unit,” said Ray Ritchie, of Unique Campus Rentals. ... inspections for crime prevention, fire prevention and building safety. ...

News Briefly: Cigarette found to be cause of fire in North Campus
UT The Daily Texan - Austin,TX,USA
A fire that displaced dozens of students from a North Campus condominium complex over spring break was caused by a forgotten cigarette, a spokeswoman for ...

• Updated: Reward offered after fire set in UM residence hall
The Ann Arbor News - MLive.com - Ann Arbor,MI,USA
Students were evacuated from West Quad early this morning after the small fire was intentionally set in the hallway of a lower floor, campus police reported ...

Fire leads to late-night evacuation of Ottensman Hall at UW ...
Exponent Online - Platteville,WI,USA
Campus Police Officer Molly Thelemann was the first on the scene. Thelemann said she entered the building, located the fire and used a fire extinguisher to ...

Seton Hall dorm firestarter granted early release
Examiner.com - USA
Families of the fire victims implored state authorities to require that Ryan serve out the five-year sentence both he and Joseph T. LePore were given for ...

April fire safety event planned
Justice - Waltham,MA,USA
by Michelle Liberman A 20-foot fire safety trailer that will recreate a dorm room and simulate different levels of smoke during a fire is coming to campus ...

UI frat fire displaces 56 until the fall
Urbana/Champaign News-Gazette - Champaign,IL,USA
Fire damage is visible on the third floor of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity house on John Street in Champaign on Thursday. By Robert K. O'Daniell "Nobody ...

Fire forces evacuation at SIUE dorm
Alton Telegraph - Alton,IL,USA
By SANFORD J. SCHMIDT EDWARDSVILLE - For the second time in two weeks, a fire broke out early Wednesday in a dorm at Southern Illinois University ...

Fire damages fraternity house
RU Daily Targum - New Brunswick,NJ,USA
Fire trucks occupy Union Street early Monday morning as firefighters research the fire that broke out on the third floor of Gamma Sigma fraternity house. ...

Pitt Frat House Burns In Overnight Blaze
WPXI.com - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
The fire started at about 11:30 pm at the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity house in the 200 block of North Dithridge Street. Everyone inside was able to get out OK. ...

Fire leaves fraternity house uninhabitable
Daily Illini - Champaign,IL,USA
Rodheim, a sophomore in FAA and member of the Delta Tau Delta Fraternity, lives in a room almost directly underneath the attic, where the fire started. ...

Students Displaced After Oakland Frat House Fire
KDKA - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
Read more in our Privacy Policy A fire broke out at a fraternity house in Oakland. Some of the students living there tried to put out the fire with water. ...

Fire Shuts Down U. of Manitoba Campus in Winnipeg
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - USA
One institution, Concordia College, in Moorhead, Minn., closed when the city urged evacuation; other campuses canceled classes so students could join the ...

Missouri college town of Columbia to require fire sprinklers in ...
Seattle Times - United States
University of Missouri fraternity and sorority houses still will be required to install fire sprinklers but not until 2016. ...

Student indicted in Mount fires
Cincinnati.com - Cincinnati,OH,USA
A student at the college, Daviene Hutsell, 28, died during the fire. Her death remains under investigation. The coroner has preliminarily ruled she died of ...

UT-area fire displaces dozens of students
Austin American-Statesman - Austin,TX,USA
By Molly Bloom and Joshunda Sanders About 60 University of Texas students were temporarily displaced by a two-alarm fire that started about 11 pm Friday at ...

March 2009

Fire damages W&L fraternity house
Roanoke Times - Roanoke,VA,USA
By Mike Allen The Pi Kappa Phi fraternity house at Washington and Lee University sustained "major damage" in a fire early today. The fire began about 4:15 ...

Street Fires Set in Morgantown After WVU Basketball Win
MSNBC - USA
Morgantown fire officials are investigating nine street fires that were set after Thursday night's West Virginia University basketball win over Pitt in the ...

Mt. St. Joe suspect asked about fires
Cincinnati.com - Cincinnati,OH,USA
That information was written in an affidavit by Delhi Township police seeking a search warrant of Jordan Cullen’s dorm room. The Facebook posting also asked ...

Pipe bomb explodes near CSU-Monterey Bay student housing
The Salinas Californian - Salinas,CA,USA
University police officers were dispatched after an explosion was heard on the school’s east campus housing near Schoonover Drive and Edde Court. ...

Disaster strikes twice: Two fire victims' dorm room had suffered ...
Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com - Kalamazoo,MI,USA
WMU also opened a dorm to students affected by the fire and, as of 10 pm Friday, the Greater Kalamazoo Area Chapter of the American Red Cross had provided ...

No injuries reported after fire rips through Kalamazoo building
Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com - Kalamazoo,MI,USA
Fire victims were being allowed to stay at WMU's Harrison/Stinson Hall dormitory on campus, said Thomas Sivak, the emergency services director at the ...

Fire damages W&L fraternity house
WDBJ7.com - Roanoke,VA,USA
A Fraternity house fire early Thursday morning in Lexington sent one person to the hospital. But 17 members of Pi Kappa Phi and the house director made it ...

Fire at Washington and Lee Frat House
WCAV - Charlottesville,VA,USA
A fire at a fraternity house on the campus of Washington and Lee University caused major damage, but nobody was seriously hurt. Fire officials say 17 ...

MTSU student indicted on terrorism, arson charges for October 2008 ...
WHNT - Huntsville,AL,USA
(AP) — A former Middle Tennessee State University student charged with terrorism for threats that shut down the university has been indicted on charges of ...

Carbons monoxide scare suspends college hockey tournament
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
The fire department tested Stony Brook's players and it was determined that none of them were at dangerous levels of exposure. But after 80 people from the ...

MSJ Fires Ruled Arson, Student Dies After Seizure
kypost.com - Covington,KY,USA
Freshman Wes Dadosky, of Anderson Township, had just gotten back to his dorm room from class when the fire alarm was activated. ...

Neb. firefighters recover missing thermal imager
NTV - Kearney,NE,USA
They had been called to a small fire at a fraternity house near the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The firefighters weren't sure whether it was taken off ...

Lincoln, Neb. fire imager missing from truck
KPTM-TV - Omaha,NE,USA
Police spokeswoman, Officer Katie Flood, said the truck responded to a fire at a fraternity house on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus on Saturday ...

Inquiry ongoing for lab fire
The UCLA Daily Bruin - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Following a UCLA laboratory fire that resulted in the death of a ... of new safety inspection procedures by the UCLA Office of Environment Health & Safety. ...

Deadly UCLA Lab Fire Leaves Haunting Questions
Lab Manager Magazine - Midland,Ontario,Canada
"We consider this a profoundly tragic accident, and the campus community is still .... On Oct. 30, two months before the fire, an annual safety inspection ...

Fire Damages Former Penn State Fraternity House
WJACtv.com - Johnstown,PA,USA
An early-morning fire at a former Penn State fraternity house caused significant damage, officials said. Crews were called to the Phi Delta Theta house at ...

Charges to go to grand jury in Ohio college fire
Lancaster Eagle Gazette - Lancaster,OH,USA
Police last week arrested 24-year-old Drew Manns, who was at Lorain County Community College attending high school GED classes when the fire started ...

VCU dormitory evacuated after fire is reported
Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond,VA,USA
The students gathered in Monroe Park while firefighters investigated a report of a fire on the fifth floor of the high-rise dorm at 710 W. Franklin St. They

Accidental fire at former fraternity house causes limited damage
Penn State Live - PA,USA
An accidental electrical fire early Thursday (Feb. 26) morning at the house located at 240 N. Burrowes Rd. on Penn State's University Park campus displaced ...

LCCC: Classes resume one week after arson fire on campus
WKYC-TV - Cleveland,OH,USA
ELYRIA -- Lorain County Community College students returned to classes Thursday one week after an arson fire caused major damage to parts of the campus. ...

Unplanned Alarms Plague East Campus
Georgetown University The Hoya - Washington,DC,USA
Fire alarms on East Campus have been set off several times per week since Feb. 15, which university officials say has led many students to ignore evacuation ...

Fire, water damage former Phi Delta Theta house
Centre Daily Times - Centre,PA,USA
The Phi Delta Theta fraternity house on the Penn State Campus. The electrical fire started started around 2:45 am near a light fixture on the fourth floor ...

Fire in Mesa Court Burns Room and Sprinklers Flood First Floor
New University Online - CA,USA
by Stephanie Vatz ACCIDENT: Police have ruled out arson in a fire that engulfed a room and set off sprinklers in a Mesa Court dormitory. by Sandy Rose ...

Fire sprinkles could prevent fires in Greek housing
UM Maneater - Columbia,MO,USA
In January 2007, the Columbia City Council passed an ordinance requiring all fraternity and sorority houses to install fire sprinklers following the death ...

Fraternity Fire Safety Hearing
KOMU-TV - Columbia,MO,USA
... the fatal fire in 1999 at a fraternity house instigated an ordinance to require sprinkler systems in sorority and fraternity houses. ...

Sprinklers douse ex-frat house fire
Centre Daily Times - Centre,PA,USA
The Phi Delta Theta fraternity house on the Penn State Campus. The fire ... “They saved the building,” COG senior fire inspector Tim Knisely said of the two ...

Annual fire inspection will begin March 9
Inside BU - Binghamton,NY,USA
The University’s annual fire inspection will begin on March 9 and is expected ... It is important that the campus be proactive and correct any outstanding ...

February 2009

Students Evacuated After Saturday Fire
BU Today - United States, MA
The fire, reported to the Boston University Police Department at approximately 3:30 am, started after a student emptied the ashes from a hookah pipe into ...

Clarendon Heights apartment fire displaces four SU students
SU The Daily Orange (subscription) - Syracuse,NY,USA
... A fire broke out in the 100 building of the Clarendon Heights apartments Thursday, displacing six residents, four of whom were Syracuse University ...

Officials: Fire at Ohio college hurts retraining
Lancaster Eagle Gazette - Lancaster,OH,USA
ELYRIA (AP) — The fire that has temporarily closed an Ohio college is also interrupting work force education efforts for residents hit hard by the recession ...

Acid spill closes Clarke College building
Dubuque Telegraph Herald - Dubuque,IA,USA
By Courtney Blanchard A hydrochloric acid spill in a Clarke College chemistry lab brought classes to a halt in the building today. ...

Greek house residents responsible for damages
Daily Eastern News - Charleston,IL,USA
The residents that activated a fire sprinkler in the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house by playing catch with a football will be responsible for damages to the ...

Teen Allegedly Set Off Bomb at UC
WKRC TV Cincinnati - Cincinnati,OH,USA
The blast happened in December in the courtyard outside of Siddall Hall -- a co-ed dorm at UC Court documents say 18-year old Robert Mathiot initiated the ...

Dorms to get fire alarm upgrade
UNM Daily Lobo - Albuquerque,NM,USA
Fire alarms in many dorm rooms on campus will be updated to include louder sirens and a system to pinpoint where a fire is located. ...

Fraternity suspects arson in house fire
Texas A&M The Battalion - College Station,TX,USA
Members of the Sigma Nu fraternity suspect arson was the cause of the fire that destroyed the fraternity house during the winter break. ...

Fraternity house closed for night after sprinkler broken
Daily Eastern News - Charleston,IL,USA
... fraternity house in Greek Court struck a second-floor sprinkler head around 9:30 pm Tuesday, prompting a response from the Charleston Fire Department. ...

Candle blamed for fire at UNL fraternity house
KPTM-TV - Omaha,NE,USA
(AP) - Fire officials say a scented candle caused a small fire at a University of Nebraska-Lincoln fraternity house. The fire at Lambda Chi Alpha was ...

Fire Marshals: It’s curtains for resident decorations
Minaret - Tampa,FL,USA
26 at 5 pm the two are going to carry out an inspection of the house. The fire marshal is coming after that. According to residents, if the Boathouse does ...

After fire code violations remedied, fraternities back in houses
WBIR-TV - Knoxville,TN,USA
The state fire marshall made a wider inspection through the rest of the fraterninty ... The fraternity paid a firefighter to be in the house at all times, ...

Fire causes damage at BU dorm
Press & Sun-Bulletin - Binghamton,NY,USA
A microwave caught fire inside a Binghamton University dormitory Friday night, causing minor damage, according to Vestal Assistant Chief Chuck Paffie. ...

Early morning fire displaces students
The Daily Collegian Online - University Park,PA,USA
Clutching a laptop, the Phi Chi Theta Fraternity member said she left clothes, pictures and money collected for the Interfraternity Council/Panhellenic ...

Small fire causes minor damage at U of U
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
A small fire near the University of Utah's student union caused minor damage to a building Saturday morning. Salt Lake City firefighters responded to ...

Officials: Faulty outlet caused NC fraternity fire
WWAY NewsChannel 3 - Wilmington,NC,USA
GREENVILLE -- Officials say a faulty electrical outlet caused the fire last week that gutted a fraternity house annex at East Carolina University. ...

Cleanup continues after fire in University of Toledo building
Toledo Blade - Toledo,OH,USA
The University of Toledo is cleaning up a water-logged hallway after lab equipment melted a plastic cart it was sitting on in the engineering building. ...

Fire on UT campus
13abc.com - Toledo,OH,USA
Fire trucks and HAZMAT crews were called to the University of Toledo campus. A fire inside the north Engineering building led firefighters to evacuate ...

Fire breaks out in Urbana residence halls
Daily Illini - Champaign,IL,USA
Mullins did not know when the fire was put out. When the fire started the dorm's sprinkler system automatically turned on. There is no property damage ...

Clemson Dorm Fire Intentionally Set
WHNS - Greenville,SC,USA
CLEMSON, SC -- Fire and police officials at Clemson University said that the fire inside a dorm room on Tuesday morning was intentionally set. ...

Resident Advisor Arrested for VSU Dorm Fires
WCTV - Tallahassee,FL,USA
Cherrish Prickett, 19, a fifth floor RA at VSU's all female dorm, Langdale Hall, is facing four felony counts of first degree arson for setting nine fires ...

13 escape from fraternity fire
Greenville Daily Reflector - Greenville,NC,USA
The house at 406 Summit St. near Fifth Street is across from ECU's main campus. According to Greenville Fire-Rescue Chief Wayne Harris the cause of Friday's ...

String of Arsons At VSU Dorm
WCTV - Tallahassee,FL,USA
After Thursday's fire the president wrote an e-mail to students living in Langdale Hall saying that he would increase surveillance, but then just 10 hours ...

Berry residence hall evacuated after small fire
Rome News-Tribune - Rome,GA,USA
Firefighters responded to a fire Wednesday at Berry College that forced residents out of the Clara Hall dormitory. According to information from Berry ...

Neb. man fined for fire at fraternity house
NTV - Kearney,NE,USA
(AP) - A 23-year-old man has been fined $250 for setting a fire at a Lincoln fraternity house the same night a second fire proved fatal. ...

Dorm fire at Yeshiva is quenched without injuries
WRNN - white plains,ny,USA
AP - January 28, 2009 3:15 AM ET KIRYAS JOEL, NY (AP) - A room fire sent smoke through a dormitory at a rabbinical college in the Hasidic community of ...

To sprinkle or not to sprinkle
Columbia Daily Tribune - Columbia,MO,USA
I bet that would then require new ordinances mandating direct inspection every year of every house to make sure everyone is in compliance to prevent fire ...

January 2009

Gas leak disrupts campus
Muncie Star Press - Muncie,IN,USA
The smell was so strong, one firefighter said, it was a good thing BSU is a non-smoking campus or there could have been explosions. The fire department ...

2 in court charged with WSU arson spree
Seattle Times - United States
... Miner and Ian Copland could be sent to prison for years. WSU expelled the two students after their arrest for the April 21 fires on the Pullman campus.

Fire at campus apartment causes $50K in damages
Capital Times - Madison,Wisconsin,USA
No injuries were reported in a fire that caused $50000 in damage to a campus apartment building Thursday night, the Madison Fire Department says. ...

Fire safety important on campus, too
Inside NoVA - Prince William,VA,USA
According to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) (http://www.nfpa.org), dormitory or group occupancy fires have increased from 1980 to 2005. ...

Fire reported at fraternity house
Huntington Herald Dispatch - Huntington,WV,USA
HUNTINGTON -- A fire at the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house in the 1400 block of 5th Avenue was reported about 1 am Sunday morning. The fire was small and ...

Fire Damages MU Fraternity House
WSAZ-TV - Huntington,WV,USA
Posted By: Hey Hey Donna: Donna, i'm nominating you for the Mother Teresa award. What compassion you have! You complain about people wasting your tax ...

Fire leaves Clemson students out in cold
Greenville News - Greenville,SC,USA
The Clemson fire has been tentatively ruled accidental; it might have started with a space heater, Dixon said. Clemson University Fire and EMS responded, ...

Apartment Fire Displaces Clemson Students
News Channel 7 - SC,USA
Ten Clemson University students had to be evacuated after a fire gutted their apartment building early Saturday morning. The Clemson Police Department says ...

Sprinkler question heats up
Columbia Daily Tribune - Columbia,MO,USA
By SARA SEMELKA of the Tribune’s staff Fraternities and sororities at the University of Missouri are feeling the heat from a controversial city ordinance ...

Fire probed at Mississippi College dorm
Biloxi Sun Herald - MS, USA
Fire officials are investigating a blaze at a Mississippi College dorm that apparently started Saturday in the residence hall's basement. ...

College students awaken to fire at Loyola dorm
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
Three college students awoke to fire and smoke Sunday morning inside a dormitory at Loyola University’s Lake Shore campus in the Far North Side’s Rogers ...

Suspicions Remain Over Cause of Frat House Fire
KBTX - College Station,TX,USA
Although the cause of a fire at a Texas A&M fraternity house is inconclusive, sheriff's officials still consider it suspicious. The Brazos County Sheriff's ...

Ex-Stevens student gets probation for dorm fire
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
JERSEY CITY, NJ - A Brick Township teen charged with setting a dorm fire and making threats at the Stevens Institute of Technology has been sentenced to ...

DU grad student dead after high carbon monoxide levels
9NEWS.com - Denver,CO,USA
A woman in a nearby apartment was found unconscious. Paramedics were never able to revive the woman, later identified as Johnson. Denver Fire says two units ...

Fraternity house reopens after closing due to code violations
The Daily Beacon - Knoxville,TN,USA
UT's fraternity house for Pi Kappa Phi reopened on Monday after being closed for a ... All of this was put in the inspection report that was filed by a fire ...

Two charged with arson in WSU fires
Seattle Times - United States
No injuries or major damage were reported, but a dormitory complex with more than 900 students was evacuated. Police arrested the 21-year-old Miner after he ...

Response delayed as fire, water damage SJSU student union
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
(Patrick Tehan/Mercury News) The state fire marshal and an industrial cleanup crew descended on San Jose State University's student union Friday, ...

December 2008

Arrest made in Montclair State campus fires
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
Police say he was arrested Wednesday near University Hall, where he was leaving the scene of a bathroom fire. Romano is being held on $200000 bail. ...

Paul Smith's College urges town to wait on fire-alarm law
Plattsburgh Press Republican - Plattsburgh,NY,USA
Firefighters say these alarms are avoidable and have been meeting with college representatives for more than a year in a bid to fix the problem. Fire Chief ...

Cops think dorm fire was set on purpose
The Times of Trenton - NJ.com - Trenton,NJ,USA
PRINCETON BOROUGH -- A small fire on a wreath hanging on a dorm room door caused Henry Hall at Princeton University to be evacuated for a short while early ...

Students will be fined for fire safety violations
Justice - Waltham,MA,USA
However, he expressed concern over the inspection process. "I have a bunch of questions on how these inspections will be handled," he said. ...

Firefighters Complain About Frequent Calls
WCAX - Burlington,VT,USA
Firefighters in upstate New York say they are tired of being called to Paul Smith's College. The Paul Smiths-Gabriels Fire Department says automatic-alarm ...

Another small fire in PSU dorm forces evacuation
Laconia Citizen - Laconia,NH,USA
Fire crews traced the smoke to a trash can in the restroom. The situation was under control by 4:09 am with the use of a portable fire extinguisher and all ...

Mesa FD: 1 burned after fire breaks out at ASU dorm
ABC15.com (KNXV-TV) - Phoenix,AZ,USA
A man was burned after a fire that broke out at a student housing facility at the ASU Polytechnic campus in Mesa on Monday afternoon. ...

Firefighters On Scene of Fire on Alabama State University Campus
WSFA - Montgomery,AL,USA
Montgomery, AL (WSFA) - Montgomery firefighters remain on the scene of a fire on the campus of Alabama State University. Firefighters tell WSFA 12 News a ...

MSU Finals Interrupted By Fire
Baristanet - Montclair,NJ,USA
“It was a mob scene,” said Laila Agamie, 22, a senior from Little Falls, who was taking exams when the fire alarms rang. Teachers ended up collecting papers ...

Pi Kapp fraternity house evacuated due to fire
Daily Pennsylvanian - Philadelphia,PA,USA
The Pi Kappa Phi fraternity house, located at 4040 Walnut St., was evacuated at about 3:30 am today when brothers reported seeing smoke billowing from a ...

$20000 in damages done to 8 vehicles set on fire
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
The fire was reported early Wednesday in a parking lot behind the Sigma Chi fraternity house. All the vehicles belong to fraternity members. ...

November 2008

Electrical overload causes fire at frat house
Daily Pennsylvanian - Philadelphia,PA,USA
Risoli added that Campus Apartments, the landlord of the residence, was notified. To prevent electrical fires, Janda said students should not attach power ...

Staff editorial: Safety first when it comes to fires
Marquette Tribune - Milwaukee,WI,USA
Finally, to the dorm residents who are under the impression that pulling the fire alarm at 3 am is a funny joke: It isn't. False alarms divert resources ...

Arson suspected in Dartmouth U. fraternity fire
Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
The fire resulted in minimal damage, and no individuals were injured, according the fraternity's vice president, Alexander Fidel '09. ...

Briefs: USF student's face burned in chemistry lab
Tampabay.com - St. Petersburg,FL,USA
A University of South Florida graduate student suffered a chemical burn to the face in a lab Wednesday afternoon, Tampa Fire Rescue said. ...

Explosion-rocked OSU fraternity house condemned
Corvallis Gazette Times - Corvallis,OR,USA
However, damage to the house was more extensive than initially thought, said Jim Patton, fire prevention officer for the Corvallis Fire Department. ...
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Fire closes Aquatic Center
College of New Jersey Signal - Ewing,NJ,USA
According to Golden, the local fire department and on-campus building facilities workers did a thorough check of the building to ensure students' safety ...

Police probe fire at PSU dorm
Centre Daily Times - Centre,PA,USA
Penn State University police are investigating a fire that started in a residence hall Sunday when someone lit the contents of a bulletin board on fire. ...

Fire Evacuates MTSU Students
WSMV - Nashville,TN,USA
Some students from Middle Tennessee State University were forced to evacuate their dorm after a fire on campus Tuesday night. The incident happened around ...

Effects of fire felt by dorm
The Daily Collegian Online - University Park,PA,USA
Police are still investigating the arson and have no suspects, Moerschbacher said, adding it is "fairly odd" for a dorm fire to escalate to the point of ...

Officials investigate Jewish frat house fire
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
The fire damaged the door’s wooden framing and caused smoke damage inside. There were no injuries and the house is considered habitable. A university ...

Students Apathetic Toward Fire Codes
SBIndependent - Stony Brook,NY,USA
During a recent health and safety inspection, two RAs walked into the room of an economics major and spotted several fire code violations. ...

Fire Inspections: Time to Hide the Vodka!
NYU Local - New York City,NY,USA
Time to put the Grey Goose back under your bed and hide those rose scented candles you bought in a failed attempt to lure girls into your dorm room. ...

Fire Forces Dorm Evacuation at UW-Green Bay
WBAY - Green Bay,WI,USA
They say an overheating pump caused the fire. The residents were moved to a nearby building while firefighters let the smoke out of the dormitory and made ...

Small fire breaks out at Saint Louis University
Belleville News Democrat - IL, USA
LOUIS -- A small fire at Saint Louis University prompts the evacuation of Doisy Hall, but the blaze was extinguished and no injuries were reported. ...

Indiana State dorm fire injures two
Indianapolis Star - United States
AP TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — The second dormitory fire this year at Indiana State University left two female students suffering from smoke inhalation and of ...

UNM Arson Investigation
KOAT - USA
ALBUQUERQUE, NM -- University of New Mexico police said arson is to blame for a fire at the old Sigma Chi house early Sunday morning. ...

Fire hits historic UNC building
WRAL.com - Raleigh,NC,USA
Chapel Hill, NC — An early-morning fire hit a 19th-century building at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Saturday, but automatic sprinklers ...

Suspicious item forced the evacuation of a BSU dorm
KTVB - Boise,ID,USA
At the same time students in the dorms woke up to the fire alarm going off. "We came outside and there were mobs of people. We were all in our pajamas still ...

Fire Forces Evacuation Of 1900 Ball State Students
INDYchannel.com - Indianapolis,IN,USA
MUNCIE, Ind. -- Fire and smoke cleared out a large dormitory complex on the Ball State University campus early Wednesday morning. The university and Muncie ...

Man at UW campus sets self on fire
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
Seattle firefighters had to take a man to Harborview Medical Center after he set himself on fire at the University of Washington campus. ...

Man Dies After Setting Himself on Fire
U.S. News & World Report - Washington,DC,USA
A former employee of the University of Washington in Seattle poured gasoline on himself and set himself on fire in the middle of campus Thursday afternoon, ...

Five students flee house fire
Edmonton Sun - Alberta, Canada
CATHARINES, Ont. -- A fast-moving house fire early yesterday morning sent five Brock University students scurrying to safety, including one who was forced ...

Reward increased to $4000 in frat case
YourHub.com - Denver,CO,USA
... charges on a suspect or suspects in a fire-bombing incident at Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1100 block of 12th Street, during the early morning hours of Oct. 3. ...

UC Students Raise Fire Safety Awareness
kypost.com - Covington,KY,USA
Students at the University of Cincinnati are teaming up with area firefighters to spread awareness about fire safety. The Bearcat Community Action Team ...

October 2008

MTSU Students Face Scary Situation
WSMV - Nashville,TN,USA
A week after Middle Tennessee State University canceled classes because of an e-mail threat and small fires in a dorm, students returned only to be faced ...

Washburn students trying to figure out who would want to set fire ...
KTKA.com - Topeka,KS,USA
"Seeing smoke from the fourth floor was kind of nerve racking," Goodrich, who saw the smoke once she left the dorm, said. But what is also nerve racking is ...

Campus donation drive for fire victims
The Collegian - Fresno,CA,USA
... Lindsey Thomas and Tess Warwick lost nearly all of their personal belongings in a fire Tuesday night at Bulldog Village, west of campus on Cedar Avenue. ...

Dorm fires, threatening emails cancel classes
Sidelines Online (subscription) - Murfreesboro,TN,USA
The setting of three small fires in campus dorms Wednesday and Thursday morning heightened concern. Some news outlets have reported the malicious e-mails ...

CSO Report
University of Dallas University News - Irving,TX,USA
The Irving Fire Department cleared campus after the alarm was reset. The microwave oven was removed from the building. Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008 at 09:33 am ...

BRIEF: Student residents flee smoke at Eccles dorm
SUU Journal Online - UT,USA
Cedar City Fire Chief Paul Irons said a rubber coupler on an electrical motor in a mechanical room was the cause of the dark smoke. ...

PSU student sets fire to dorm
KPOJ - Portland,OR,USA
By Mark Workhoven A student at Portland State University is arrested Monday on accusations he started a fire in his dormitory. ...

Fire at Concord dorm quickly controlled
Beckley Register-Herald (subscription) - Beckley,WV,USA
By Fred Pace Officials said a Monday afternoon fire that led to the evacuation of a dorm on the Athens campus of Concord University did no damage to the ...

PSU Student Accused Of Arson At Dorm
KPTV.com - Portland,OR,USA
Fire investigators said they arrested a Portland State University student early Monday morning on an arson charge. PSU student Paul Rowley was arrested on a ...

Arson suspected in blaze at college
TheNewsTribune.com - Tacoma,WA,USA
A fire that heavily damaged a portable classroom building on the Clover Park Technical College campus early Wednesday likely was intentionally set, ...

$3000 Reward Offered In Fraternity Firebombing
TheDenverChannel.com - Denver,CO,USA
DENVER -- Officials increased the reward for information about a firebombing incident at a fraternity house near the University of Colorado campus Thursday. ...

Tucson Time Capsule : fire sparked UA evacuation
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
More than 800 people were evacuated from the University of Arizona Student Union on Oct. 12, 1973, because of a grease fire in the basement. ...

BREAKING: Fire drill leads to kitchen fire
Lamron - Geneseo,NY,USA
Fire trucks and ambulances arrived on campus within ten minutes of the second alarm. Manzo said that the spread of the fire was curbed by University Police ...

Another Possible Arson Fire At EKU
Lex 18 - Lexington,KY,USA
The Richmond Fire Department was called to EKU's campus again Thursday after a trash fire at Dupree Hall, the fourth fire on the campus since Monday. ...

Reward offered in attack on fraternity
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
Members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity were inside the frat house in the 1100 block of 12th Street when fire erupted outside about 2:15 am As they ...

Cops: No one ruled out in frat firebombing
United Press International - USA
The small fire caused minor damage to the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house but it was followed by a sizable brawl in an nearby alley that seriously injured one ...

No injuries in ASU frat house chimney fire
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
Members of Sigma Chi Fraternity cut up pallets of wood, overstuffed them into a chimney and lit them on fire, senior fire inspector Mike Reichling said. ...

Man jailed for dorm arson | KXNet.com North Dakota News
KXMC - Minot,ND,USA
Miller's attorney says the fire was a prank, and his client never intended to cause any harm. Miller was leaving the dorm when he held a lighter to cotton ...

Kitchen Fire at GVSU Sparks Quick Response from Firefighters
WZZM - Grand Rapids,MI,USA
(WZZM)-- Firefighters responded to a kitchen fire Sunday morning at Grand Valley State University, only to find thick smoke after an attempt to make sugar ...

New home for public safety at SCSU
St. Cloud Times - St. Cloud,MN,USA
It also has a bunkerlike dispatch center where staff can monitor almost 80 cameras on campus. Because there's no basement, the dispatch center was ...

Firefighters Want More Authority To Inspect Off-Campus Housing
10TV - Columbus,OH,USA
Assistant Fire Chief Karry Ellis said his department needs more authority to inspect off-campus housing. "We've seen the homes that we have legal authority ...

Teen to serve one year for dorm fire
Worthington Daily Globe - Worthington,MN,USA
MOORHEAD - A 19-year-old with a history of legal scrapes was sentenced to a year in jail Monday for starting a dormitory fire in December. ...

Explosions, Fire Investigated at Emory Univ.
WXIA-TV - Atlanta,GA,USA
Firefighters found four trash cans on fire outside a dormitory on Eagle Row. Crews put out the fires and found a bubbling chemical inside drink containers ...

Firebomb does little damage at CU frat house
Examiner.com - USA
The early morning firebomb caused no injuries or significant damage, and residents had put the fire out by the time firefighters arrived, police spokeswoman ...

WSU student falls from frat house fire escape
KXLY - Spokane,WA,USA
PULLMAN -- A student at Washington State University in Pullman fell from the fire escape of a fraternity house Sunday morning. Police say the 20-year-old ...

Firefighters find red flags in student rentals
Columbus Dispatch - Columbus,OH,USA
As head of the division's fire-prevention bureau, he oversees city fire inspections. A recent analysis by WBNS-TV (Channel 10) revealed that city ...

Fire breaks out at ZBT fraternity
SU The Daily Orange (subscription) - Syracuse,NY,USA
Matt Abdifar, president of SU's Interfraternity Council, said each fraternity is required to pass an annual house inspection for fire hazards. ...

September 2008

Fireworks cause fire at PRCC dorm room
Biloxi Sun Herald - MS, USA
... College student faces misdemeanor charges of malicious mischief after officials say exploding fireworks in a dormitory room triggered a small fire. ...

Fire Factor 2008
WCIA-3 News - IL,USA
Sixty student-leaders from across campus came-out to learn what it takes to survive a fire. It's all part of the eighth annual Fire Factor Academy. ...

Inspectors slam doors on Science & Math dorms
Durham Herald Sun - Durham,NC,USA
12 letter from state fire marshal Section Chief Susan Gentry listed the following "life safety" issues: - Three of the dorm's rooms were too small because ...

False fire alarms annoy residents
Henderson State University Oracle - Arkadelphia,AR,USA
To some it may seem logical to remain in the dormitory rather than wasting time evacuating for a false alarm, but Corley disagrees. "I know it's frustrating ...

Fire at ESU forces evacuation
Emporia Gazette - Emporia,KS,USA
There were no injuries in a fire that prompted the evacuation of the Health, Physical Education and Recreation Building at Emporia State University Thursday ...

Fire Division to inspect off-campus rentals
Columbus Dispatch - Columbus,OH,USA
A WBNS crew knocked on the doors of several rooming houses that weren't on the Fire Division's inspection list, and it didn't take long to find problems. ...

Pi Kappa Alpha attempts to fix fire hazards, violations
MU The Parthenon (subscription) - Huntington,WV,USA
Due to a scheduled inspection for all sororities and fraternities, Deputy Fire Marshal Dave Bias had planned on visiting the Pi Kappa Alpha house the ...

Fire sprinkler damages three floors of Aber
Montana Kaimin - Missoula,MT,USA
Since the sprinkler went off, the dorm’s fire alarm also activated, and everyone in the building had to evacuate. According to Brunell, the sprinkler in ...

Cause of fraternity fire in Madison still unknown
Chicago Tribune - United States
Fire investigators still haven't nailed down the cause of a fire at the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity house in Madison. City officials have given the ...

CU Greek officers receive a lesson in fire safety
University of Colorado The Campus Press - Boulder,CO,USA
The sixth annual Greek Fire Academy gave 24 sorority and fraternity fire safety officers a crash course in fire extinguisher use, evacuation, fire behavior ...

Dorm fire helps educate students
KRCG - Jefferson City,MO,USA
Tuesday afternoon, William Woods University and the Fulton Fire Department lit a fully furnished mock dorm room on fire to educate students on fire safety. ...

Marijuana blamed for fire at Medaille dorm
WKBW-TV - Buffalo,NY,USA
Burns allegedly started a fire yesterday afternoon inside a second floor dorm room at the South Residence Hall. He allegedly put hot marijuana ashes inside ...

Oven Fire Breaks Out in Barnard Dorm
CU Columbia Spectator - New York,NY,USA
By Alix Pianin and Betsy Morais A small fire broke out on the sixth floor of the Barnard residence hall at 600 W. 116th St. early Friday morning. ...

Fire forces evacuation of apartment tower at PSU
Clearfield Progress - Clearfield,PA,USA
STATE COLLEGE (AP) - A small fire at an apartment tower in State College forced the evacuation of more than 100 apartments. The fire at the 12-story Penn ...

Fire at University Mall causes massive smoke damage
Daily Herald - Provo,UT,USA
Between the sprinklers and responding fire crews, the fire was knocked down before doing much damage, but University Mall officials estimate that the smoke ...

SC, NC students to join fire victims' moms in DC
The Daily Advance - Elizabeth City,NC,USA
The Carolina students, along with other mothers of fire victims, and Shawn Simons, who survived a Seton Hall University dorm fire in 2000, ...

State College Fire
WTAJ - Altoona,PA,USA
STATE COLLEGE, CENTRE COUNTY - State College Police said Sunday a minor fire at the Penn Tower apartment building forced the evacuation of the student ...

August 2008

Arson Suspected in Dorm Fire at Miami University in Ohio
Insurance Journal - San Diego,CA,USA
Officials at Miami University are investigating two fires they say were deliberately set in a dormitory on the Oxford campus. University police say the ...

Small fire leads to evacuation at U of Iowa dorm
Quad City Times - Davenport,IA,USA
IOWA CITY — Fire officials say no one was injured when hundreds of students were evacuated after small fire broke out in a University of Iowa dormitory. ...

Fire at Oregon state Capitol investigated as arson
The Associated Press -
The fire, which started on the south side of the building, was reported by Willamette University students living across the street at about 12:30 am ...

Fire in UF building causes minor damage
Gatorsports.com - Gainesville,FL,USA
By Lise Fisher Fire spread from a room on the second floor of the Academic Research Building at the University of Florida early Friday, Gainesville Fire ...

Fire safety should come first
Newsdurhamregion.com - Durham,Ontario,Canada
As well, the new student housing bylaw surrounding the Oshawa college and university campus requires an inspection by the fire department.

Disclosure on campus fires
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - Newark,NJ,USA
19, 2000, fire at Seton Hall, 126 others have died in campus fires. The hope is that because of Pascrell's effort, fewer students will die or be injured ...

Campus Fire Safety Right-to-Know Act Signed by Bush
Firehouse.com (subscription) - USA
That was different" That's the reaction of Ed Comeau, founder of Center for Campus Fire Safety, to his announcement that President Bush had signed the ...

Firefighters light up dorm room to teach safety
9NEWS.com - Denver,CO,USA
FORT COLLINS – The two makeshift dorm rooms sat side by side in the open space next to the Poudre Fire Authority's training center. Both were about to burn, ...

Apartment dwellers thankful for their lives
Spartanburg Herald Journal (subscription) - Spartanburg,SC,USA
Firefighters work to extinguish a fire at Campus Edge apartment complex beside the USC Upstate campus in Spartanburg early Thursday morning. ...

Fire officials say lightning likely cause of fire at NSU's Student ...
Daily Comet - Thibodaux,LA,USA
THIBODAUX – A lightning strike is believed to have started a fire that caused damage to Nicholls State University’s Office of Student Publications tonight, ...

Two arrested in 'Y' blaze
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
... that charred much of the mountainside near the iconic block "Y" above the Brigham Young University campus. The fire cost more than $30000 to fight.

July 2008

Rowan Students Evacuated After Apartment Fire
MyFox Philadelphia - Philadelphia,PA,USA
The complex is popular with students from nearby Rowan University, many of whom are displaced. FOX 29's John Atwater reports all displaced students are ...

WVU fraternity house condemned for fire violations
Daily Mail - Charleston - Charleston,WV,USA
by AP MORGANTOWN -- A privately owned fraternity house at West Virginia University has been condemned for unsafe living conditions by the Morgantown Fire ...

College Plans For Student Dining After Fire
WHNS - Greenville,SC,USA
ABBEVILLE, SC -- Officials at Erskine College said they have made plans for student dining after a fire destroyed their dining hall two weeks ago. ...

Fraternity house fire causes minor damage
Columbia Daily Tribune - Columbia,MO,USA
By the Tribune’s staff A kitchen fire yesterday at a University of Missouri fraternity house caused minor damage but no injuries, the Columbia Fire ...

UAPB Adds Fire Safety To Freshman Orientation
Today's THV - Little Rock,AR,USA
"Every year college and university students experience a growing number of fire related emergencies. There are several causes for these fires, however most ...

Chemical explosion at CSU's Foothills Campus forces evacuation
The Coloradoan - Fort Collins,CO,USA
At no time was there danger to the general public, said Poudre Fire Authority spokesman Pat-rick Love. Jorge J. Rocca, a CSU distinguished professor of ...

Woman sentenced to five years for UW firebombing
Northwest Cable News - Portland,OR,USA
An arson fire at University of Washington Center for Urban Horticulture in Seattle in May of 2001 caused $7 million in damage. SEATTLE – A woman who pleaded ...

LU nursing building reopens after campus fire
CKPR - Thunder Bay,ON,Canada
The road to recovery from disruptions caused by a massive five-alarm fire Monday night at Lakehead University, is underway. Lakehead officials announced ...

Three-alarm fire began in basement of Schuylkill County nursing ...
Reading Eagle - Reading,PA,USA
The county plans to sell the property to Penn State University for its Schuylkill campus, according to county Administrator Darlene Dolzani.

Small fire on West College
Jacksonville Journal Courier - Jacksonville,IL,USA
BY KATIE ANDERSON A transformer problem near West College Avenue caused a small fire and downed power lines about 10 pm Wednesday according to Jacksonville ...

Fire quelled inside UNH dorm
The Union Leader - Manchester,NH,USA
DURHAM – University of New Hampshire students were evacuated from a five-story dormitory this morning after a fire broke out in a fifth floor kitchen. ...

Small fire at UNH dorm leads to early wake-up
Portsmouth Herald News - Portsmouth,NH,USA
By AP DURHAM — Summer residents of a University of New Hampshire dormitory got an early wake-up call courtesy of the fire department. ...

June 2008

Former UT student sentenced to diversion in dorm fire
WAAY - Huntsville,AL,USA
(AP) - A teenager has pleaded guilty to aggravated arson for a dorm elevator fire at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. ...

Fire burns Diablo Valley College
abc7news.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
PLEASANT HILL, CA -- A fire severely damaged the police services headquarters building on the Diablo Valley College campus in Pleasant Hill early Monday ...

Chemistry building evacuated for spill cleanup; other campus ...
UC Davis - Davis,CA,USA
UC Davis fire department spokesman Paul Pfotenhauer said that at about 7:30 am, a graduate student working in chemistry professor Philip Power's lab, ...

Small fire on LeMoyne College campus linked to electrical box
News 10 Now - Syracuse,NY,USA
SYRACUSE, NY -- A small fire at Harrison Hall, on the Le Moyne College campus has been traced back to an electrical box. It happened Saturday morning, ...

Sprinkler projects delayed at three USC dorms
The State - Columbia,SC,USA
By JAMES T. HAMMOND - jhammond@thestate.com Almost 1000 USC students who live in dorms could go another year without fire-dousing sprinklers and other fire ...

Small fire hits KU dorm under construction
Reading Eagle - Reading,PA,USA
Firefighters responded to a small fire at Kutztown University's newest dorm shortly after 6 Friday night. Dixon Hall is under construction and was ...

Building collapses on Rice campus
KHOU - Houston,TX,USA
HOUSTON -- Houston firefighters are rushing to the Rice University campus where there are reports that a building has collapsed. According to Houston Fire ...

Fraternity house to stay closed
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
The city's fire marshal ordered the Pi Kappa Alpha house closed Friday after a technician who was fixing a fire alarm reported seeing dirty and dangerous ...

Fire cancels classes at AHC
Santa Maria Times - Santa Maria,CA,USA
By Times Staff Firefighters wearing respirators walk through the smoke Wednesday during a fire on the campus of Allan Hancock College. ...

Fire breaks out at Middle Georgia College dorm under construction
Macon Telegraph - Macon,GA,USA
A small, isolated fire broke out Tuesday morning at a Middle Georgia College residence hall that is under construction. ...

School Fire Drill Investigation
WTVC - Chattanooga,TN,USA
Would your child know what to do, if a fire started in their school? Would they know what to do, in the event of a tornado, or if an intruder breaks into ...

Madison police and fire investigators looking for tips on ...
WKOW-TV.com - Madison,WI,USA
... Investigation Unit is requesting help from the public with the ongoing investigation of the fire that destroyed the Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity house. ...

Landlords mobilize as City Hall considers rental-housing inspections
Crosscut - Seattle,WA,USA
"It's a life and safety issue for our students," he said, referring to the thousands who live in rental units off campus. In many cases, students are living ...

Suspicious fire at MIT
Auckland stuff.co.nz - Auckland,New Zealand
Classes resumed yesterday in other campus rooms and the Otara Leisure Centre. MIT is now waiting for police and fire investigators to finish on site before ...

WV Fire Marshal: New Frame Dorms Safer Than Home; Sprinklers ...
HNN Huntingtonnews.net - WV, USA
That’s good news especially at a school that lost students in the off campus Emmons Junior fire. In fact, concrete and steel did not prevent nine casualiies ...

Fraternity house on fire in Ann Arbor
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA
ANN ARBOR -- Firefighters this morning were battling a blaze in a fraternity house near Hill and Olivia streets. The fire was reported about 6 am, ...

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