Word: sprinkler
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...fire, in one of the downstairs bedrooms of Quincy 315, triggered a sprinkler system and was quickly exinguished, according to Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) Sergeant Bill McNamara...
...quiet nights like tonight, two of his most potent enemies are sprinklers and roving skunks. One night, with the windows down, a sprinkler hit him squarely in the chest and face...
...Spring Street resident reported to CPD that his nine-year-old son was playing at Hurley Street Park and apparently splashed one or two boys that were also playing in the sprinkler area. One of the boys splashed the son back before leaving to pick up a baseball bat. After returning, he walked back to the son and threatened to commit an act of violence. The father intervened, explaining his son's problem, and the suspect stated, " I don't care; I'm going to bash his face...
Nationwide, most college housing structures lack sprinklers. Indeed, according to the National Fire Protection Association, a Quincy, Mass.-based industry group, 72 percent of dorms, fraternity houses and sorority houses that suffer fires are not equipped with sprinkler systems...
...basement lab in the Conant Laboratory building was flooded with water two feet deep when a fire sprinkler froze and burst Monday morning...