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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Four Harvard Medical School students, in an attempt to dispose of toilet paper while on a hiking trip in a wooded area northeast of Seattle, accidentally started a 500-acre forest fire. The four men admitted to having started the blaze, which took three days and $500,000 to contain, a national forest spokesperson said. The man allegedly responsible for starting the blaze was fined $100, the customary amount levied for starting a fire without a permit...

Author: By Compiled CHRISTOPHER J. georges and Thomas J. Winslow., S | Title: While You Were Away | 9/12/1985 | See Source »

Four Harvard Medical School students, in an attempt to dispose of toilet paper while on a hiking trip in a wooded area northeast of Seattle, accidentally started a 500-acre forest fire. The four men admitted to having started the blaze, which took three days and $500,000 to contain, a national forest spokesperson said. The man allegedly responsible for starting the blaze was fined $100, the customary amount levied for starting a fire without a permit...

Author: By Compiled CHRISTOPHER J. georges and Thomas J. Winslow., S | Title: While You Were Away | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

...were on a hiking trip in the Cascade Mountains near Chelan, Wa., reportedly tried to dispose of toilet paper by burning it in the wooded area on June 27. Because of the dry spell plaguing the West coast this summer, the men's action ignited a blaze that took three days and about $500,000 to contain, said Wenahatchee National Forest spokeswoman Marti J. Ames...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: Med School Grads Caused Forest Fire | 7/23/1985 | See Source »

...hikers reportedly told fire investigators on the scene that they had read experienced woodsmen always burned their toilet tissue. "It wasn't the thing to do," Ames said...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: Med School Grads Caused Forest Fire | 7/23/1985 | See Source »

...three doors. Hey, I thought, I am right on the mark! Three bedrooms and a single for this earlybird. I slowly opened the first door, and in place of my desk, a sink, instead of a dresser, a tub, and alas, in the place of my bed, a toilet. It then dawned on me that Harvard had cheated me of my dream single...

Author: By Ji H. Min, | Title: A Bed and a Place to Call Home | 7/16/1985 | See Source »

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