Portable fan forces residence hall evacuation, flooding from sprinkler system.
I saw the fire truck and emergency vehicles over at Founders on my way home last night, but figured it was just a false alarm, as is typical in any college residence hall. Well, at least no one was hurt and the fire was contained. I did like the quote about a student who wanted to air out her room but was concerned about starting another fire. If fans were a large fire threat, they wouldn’t be allowed in to begin with. I have two fans in my office over at Saddlemire, which is mainly due to the fact that the building gets rather hot in the spring, summer, and fall, so I’m assuming I’ll still be able to have them.
I was rather distraught though, that a fire on campus, even though there were not injuries or fatalities, was beat out by the death of Anna Nicole Smith as the main article on the BG News website. That’s almost as bad as Paula Zahn bumping her discussion with Richard Dawkins after the horrifically biased “panel” the other day, so that she could waste air time talking about Anna Nicole.
On a related note, I set off the smoke alarms last night while pre-crisping some pepperoni for our pizza.
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