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About 250 students were evacuated from the Freshman Union Thursday afternoon when a sprinkler system in adjoining Burr Hall ruptured and set off fire alarms in the building, fire department officials said...
...said that in the last two years, the number of fire alarm calls to Harvard buildings has decreased 50 percent. And with new safety laws that require sprinkler systems, Ferazani said, "I think you'll have a 100 percent safety record...
...Detroit, one of the hottest items is a $2 button of John Paul sporting a Detroit Tigers cap with the caption BLESS YOU BOYS. The prize for the most spectacularly tasteless souvenir goes to a Detroit firm that is marketing a $55, 30-in.-high aluminum Pope-shaped lawn sprinkler, called Let Us Spray. Not everyone is afflicted with the commercial bug. Some ticket brokers thought scalping for papal rallies would be a bit much. "Frankly, I think it's sacrilegious," said Rick Kline, of Los Angeles' Front Row Center Ticket Service...
...Dupont Plaza had no sprinkler system; it is not required under local law. Puerto Rico is hardly alone in its failure to insist on the devices. In the U.S., guidelines vary greatly from city to city; Nevada, Florida and Massachusetts are the only states that make installation in all hotels mandatory. Governor Hernandez Colon has now promised to seek a law directing the island's hotels to install sprinklers...
Lewandowski telephoned Hayward at 5 o'clock on a Sunday morning; her alarm bells were already ringing. "Steve was trying not to cry," she says. "I knew right then that Concession was dead." The cause of the fire is an uneasy mystery, though a sprinkler system had been disconnected in the cold. About all Lewandowski could tell her was, "There's been a fire at the barn. There'll be some papers to sign." He recalls with admiration, "She asked how I was doing. Katrina's smart, realistic. She understands the track...