Read the stinging statement from the Exec. Dir. of the IAFC at
http://www.vpff.org/iafc.htm.
I gotta agree !


At 07:52 AM 1/24/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Fatal fires involving college housing
>
>January 19, 2000
>(CNN)
>
>Some recent fatal fires involving college housing:
>*       September 8, 1990: Three University of California-Berkeley students
die and two are injured at the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity. A visitor to the
house admits starting the fire while playing with a lighter.
>
>*       February 13, 1992: One student dies at Phi Kappa Theta fraternity
at California University in Pennsylvania.
>
>*       October 24, 1993: One student dies and two are injured at the Alpha
Xi Delta sorority at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
>
>*       October 21, 1994: Five students at Bloomsburg University in
Pennsylvania die after sofa catches fire at Beta Sigma Delta fraternity house.
>
>*       May 12, 1996: Five students die and three are injured at the
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill at Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.
Investigators blame a cigarette tossed into a trash can.
>
>*       October 19, 1996: One student dies at the Phi Delta Theta
fraternity at Ohio Wesleyan University. Investigators say a smoldering
cigarette started the fire.
>
>*       January 3, 1997: A graduate student at Central Missouri State
University dies in a smoke-filled hallway in a former dormitory converted
into apartments.
>
>*       January 10, 1997: One student dies and five are injured in a
500-bed dormitory at the University of Tennessee-Martin.
>
>*       February 20, 1997: One student dies at an all-women's residence at
the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
>
>*       December 9, 1997: One student dies and seven are injured at a men's
dormitory at Greenville College in Illinois.
>
>*       September 18, 1998: One student dies and another is seriously
injured in dormitory fire at Murray State University in Kentucky.
>
>
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