Residence halls evacuated again
By Justin Myers, Staff Writer. Posted April 24, 2007.
Chris Dunn/Staff Photographer
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Residents of the Hudson and Gillett residence halls were evacuated after a second fire in less than a week triggered a fire alarm Sunday night. The alarm was the fourth in eight days for Gillett.
At approximately 10:30 p.m. on Sunday, an electrical fire started in a maintenance workshop in the basement of Hudson, according to a Columbia Fire Department news release.
The release stated a fan motor overheated to start the fire.
“(The fan) was just an item that got left on that, in most cases, one would think that you could leave on, and it just happened to burn out,” Residential Academic Programs Associate Director Kristen Temple said.
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According to the release, the fire caused less than $10,000 in estimated total damages.
If I had to leave a fan on, I'd plug it into a power strip that could turn it off if the fan started to overheat.
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