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There are 8 comments on Students Evacuated After Saturday Fire

  1. Are there some basic guidelines to students about the common causes of house-fires? I wonder how many of them actually realize that a light-bulb is hot enough to set alight to anything that remains within a short distance of it, or touches it? Or the kind of distance there has to be above a candle flame for it to be safe? Or the risks from irons, hair-dryers, etc. if put down hot on the wrong surfaces (even if turned off)? An obligatory video of some of these things, together with interviews with students who either caused or immediately witnessed dorm fires, might be something BU ought to show all new students. I know when I was a student I had no idea that light-bulbs were a serious fire hazard if clothing (e.g. hanging on a rail nearby) came too close.

  2. Maybe BU should stop talking about student’s careless behavior and start correcting its own. It took me 4 months last year to get my fire extinguisher filled, after filing several maintenance requests and an eventual letter to the dean. You shouldn’t need to write to Dean Elmore to get this school do to its job and fill up a fire extinguisher. My friends are having the same problem now, right upstairs from me, so clearly it wasn’t just a BU one-time screw up. For all BU says about its fire policy, it really just doesn’t care.

  3. It’s true, for all the talk, BU doesn’t do enough. My Buswell building has no working lights in the rear stairwell / fire exit. I’ve reported it twice and nothing was fixed. Considering it’s illegal, perhaps a call to the city and a fine would get BU to follow the law.

  4. You’ve gotta be kidding me. BU is a good school. Its students are known for being very smart. WTF. Light bulbs and ovens? How absent from reality do you have to be?

    I thought hookahs weren’t allowed in the first place? There’s a reason the school has rules like this. It’s going to be a big deal if you burn down a townhouse on Buswell. A lot of students are going to lose all their crap. The school is going to have to rebuild and reimburse. You could burn down all of Buswell if you’re not careful.

    And I agree with the poster that was talking about BU doing better work for fire safety, too. Empty fire extinguishers are really useful if you plan to throw them at a flame in an effort to extinguish it.

    Morons.

  5. I am sorry but shouldn’t college students know what causes small house fires and why should it be left up to the university to teach them? I mean come on now, these are adults we are talking about here, not children. When are these students going to start taking more responsibility for their own actions and start paying closer attention to what they are doing?

  6. http://www.bu.edu/today/video/2007/09/30/playing-with-fire-safety-week
    Note that this was put up in October, 2007. Best quote: “If everyone took a couple of seconds to think….” Yeah, huh?
    Maybe BU needs to do this every year. And here’s a basic rule of thumb for those that missed that pesky fire safety talk in 3rd grade: if it’s too hot for you to touch, it’s too hot for anything to touch it. Simple enough? This ain’t rocket science!

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