Seven U.S. College Students Die in Beach House Fire
Reuters
10/29/2007
Seven South Carolina college students were killed and six were injured on Sunday when a fire swept through a beach home in a U.S. resort community, officials said.
Police in Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina, received an emergency call at 7:01 a.m. EDT/1101 GMT, the town said in a statement. When rescue services got there two minutes later, the house was completely engulfed in flames, according to the statement.
University of South Carolina officials said they believed the six injured and six of the dead were students at the university.
The seventh dead student was from Clemson University, Vice President for Student Affairs Dennis Pruitt told a news conference.
Pruitt said the university was helping North Carolina officials identify the dead.
Ocean Isle Beach has about 425 year-around residents, according to its Web site. It is located on a seven-mile-long (11-km-long) barrier beach on the southern end of North Carolina's Atlantic shore, about 30 miles (50 km) north of the resort community of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
The injured were treated and released at Brunswick Community Hospital, hospital spokeswoman Amy Meyers said.
This is not the only time college students have been heard to be hurt or killed at a major college or university. Especially here in Seattle, in less well-known territories, there has been school shootings... Terrible, but I say give college a chance anyway. I want to do something about the violence in the schools, and make for a school that deserves respect and dignity to one another as mature aspiring students of the future.
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Posted 30 October 2007 - 11:17 PM
i think.... colleges, for students, EVERY STUDENTS DESERVES THE RIGHT TO FEEL SAFE.
i think the college should do their best to protect the students.
and students shouldn't be sooo butt hurt about it when RAs want to check and all.
our school has this text message thing and email thing incase of an emergency.
but then again, our school is only ~2000.
stay safe my fellow college-iers.
i think the college should do their best to protect the students.
and students shouldn't be sooo butt hurt about it when RAs want to check and all.
our school has this text message thing and email thing incase of an emergency.
but then again, our school is only ~2000.
stay safe my fellow college-iers.
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