College OTR: Fire

Fire Storms Through Westmont College, Does Not Reach UC Santa Barbara

Posted by Mark Ratto11/14/2008 1:46 PM

Flames ran through the city of Montecito on Thursday night, taking out more than 100 homes and forcing 90% of Westmont College's faculty and students to evacuate. Montecito is located in Santa Barbara County and is well known for the celebrity homes scattered along the coastal city.

But Thursdays fire took the attention off the celebrities a...

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Latest comment by Anonymous: Im a wildland firefighter and ive seen the reports from the US Forest Service and My heart is out to all of those Westmont Students and Faculty, you guys are in my prayers.

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Faulty Wiring Ignites Massive Sony Vaio Recall

Posted by The Valkyrie09/04/2008 09:19 AM

It’s the perfect graduation present, a brand new laptop. While all the cool trendy kids get MacBooks and all the boring kids get Dells, the rest of you might have ended up with a Sony Vaio. Today, however, Sony is recalling over 73,000 of them because of faulty wiring near the computer's hinge. One person has already been burned because of the g...

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UGA Arson Is Anti-Greek

Posted by Jambalaya Joe08/26/2008 5:00 PM

Anti-Greek sentiment may be smoldering on the University of Georgia campus.

Literally smoldering.

A fire at the Chi Phi fraternity house this weekend may not have been an accident. The Red & Black, the school’s newspaper, reports:

Officials are unsure what caused the fire. The report was filed as an arson and stated the cause appeared to be...

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How To Go Fireball Sledding

Posted by JPW06/04/2008 10:04 AM

Materials Needed:
• 1 Snowy/Icy Winter day
• 1 Old Mattress
• 2 Gallons of Gasoline
• 1 Lighter
• 1 Prayer
• (Optional: 1 Video Camera)

Step 1: Wait until the first snowy day.

Step 2: Find an old dirty mattress that no one wants anymore.

Step 3: Carefully carry the mattress up to the tallest, steepest, slipperiest hill you can find.

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Arsonist Strikes in Humanities Building

Posted by blondie05/25/2008 12:37 AM

Disgruntled history student? Flyer hater?

UW Madison Police and the Madison Fire Department are investigating a fire set on the 4th floor of the Humanities building around noon on Saturday, May 24.

The contents of a large garbage can had been set on fire, as well as papers on four separate bulletin boards. A large number of posters and paper

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Fire Tears Through Apartment on Euclid Ave.

Posted by ajchavar05/07/2008 02:18 AM

According to fire officials, no students were seriously injured.

Several fire, police, and EMT trucks responded as well as Syracuse University Ambulances. Euclid was shut down from approximately Lancaster to Maryland avenue (one block).

The fire occurred in the primarily-Syracuse University-student occupied southeast university neighborhood a

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