Word: fire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alarm fire of undetermined origin swept through the Varsity Club early this morning, causing fire, water, and smoke damage in excess...
James S. Lentz, assistant football coach, was the sole resident of the Club when the fire broke out at 12:05 a.m. Discovering that his telephone had gone dead, he drove to the fire station at the foot of Quincy Street to turn in the alarm...
Many of the drums, including the smaller of the big drums, had been damaged before they could be saved. Destruction in this case appears to have been caused more by the general rush of firemen combatting the blaze in the basement than by the fire...
...addition to this damage, which Kirklin estimated to be around $2000, about two-thirds of the band's music was destroyed or damaged by fire and water. Over a foot of water had accumulated in the band room...
Carl Reinhardt, a Leverett House senior, phoned the fire department shortly after Lentz had made his report. Reinhardt reported that he saw "huge flames" shooting from the building, accompanied by a loud "crackling noise...