Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Firefighters who entered the room said that the fire was burning in the closet when they arrived and that the fire did not spread beyond the room. But smoke did spread throughout the floor and into the next...
...roommate woke me up and there was smoke covering the entire ceiling of the hallway, probably to head level," said Katherine M. O'Connor '99, who lives in Gilbert 405 and was able to exit by the stairs...
...When they finally got the windows up you could see huge clouds of smoke coming out of the room," O'Connor said...
Although the fire was put out almost immediately, it took over an hour for firefighters using electric fans to dissipate the smoke...
Fire fighters rushed to Dunster this weekend in response to an alarm set off in F-entryway, where a couple hundred students had packed into a three-floor party. Upon hearing a smoke alarm go off in one of the rooms (those annoying high-pitched safety devices that are easily turned off) one partygoer decided to see if it could be disabled by pulling the fire alarm outside the room (those bright red latches that, in all cases, bring in people with big red trucks and fire hoses and cannot be easily turned off). The partygoer said she contemplated explaining...