Word: mattresses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three fire extinguishers failed to work yesterday after noon when students tried to put out a mattress fire in Pennypacker Hall, one of the freshmen union dormitories...
...fire started about 1:30 p.m. when a reading lamp overturned so that the bulb was touching the mattress of the top bunk of a bunk bed, Allison Baird '82 said yesterday...
Baird said she and her roommmate Hilary Nelson '82 were sitting on the bottom bunk, but didn't notice the mattress smouldering above them until another roommate came in and smelled smoke...
Nelson, who cannot walk easily because of a sprained back, called the University Police, and with the help of friends, dragged the mattress outside in front of the building...
...mattress continued to smoulder inside despite several attempts to douse the fire with water, and the fire extinguishers on the first and second floors refused to work for the students. "Then I ran up to the third floor and found the nozzle of the fire extinguisher there covered with masking tape," Baird said...