Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John F. Naylor, a resident tutor in History, and his wife are nearly trapped in their suite at the south end of the sixth floor. They escape down a smoke-filled staircase...
Across the hall in 601, Martin B. Vidgoff '66, and George Neville '66 dash through the flaming hallway, choking and blinded by black smoke, toward the south stairway. Their roommates David J. Losk '66 and Robert M. Coleman '66, try unsuccessfully to escape through the seventh-floor fire exits, but are also forced to exit through their blazing living room...
...through a window in the south wall to evacuate other students on the sixth floor. Master Bullitt meets Chandler and University Police trying to break through fire exits on the seventh floor to reach any remaining students. Using a pass key, they enter three suites, but are blocked by smoke. Garland E. Allen, Senior Tutor of Quincy House, crawls along the sixth-floor hall, under the smoke, attempting to warn other students who may still be trapped...
...expanding fire cuts off firemen George Bennett, Joseph O'Hare, and John Rocca of the rescue squad from the hall and traps them at the window of 600. Clouds of smoke stream out of the windows, forcing the firemen out on the sixth-story window ledge. After a terrifying delay, the large serial ladder moves to the window, and the three men shakily climb on and descend. They were among six firemen treated for smoke inhalation at Cambridge City Hospital...
Situation Hopeless-But Not Serious. It is Germany, 1944. Allied bombs are splintering a village, and out of the smoke and rubble steps a helmeted, hesitant air-raid warden named Frick...