Ohio State Greeks help after fatal fire...

[DeltAlum]

Excerpted from the Ohio State Lantern:

Danielle Goler, a junior in psychology and criminology, was Nichole's roommate and is staying at the Alpha Xi Delta sorority house, where she is a member. This living arrangement is permanent for the rest of the school year.

Goler has found a lot of support from the Greek community.

"As soon as the fire broke out, my sisters ran out to the house," Goler said. "My best friend, Elizabeth, stayed up with me for 36 hours."

The Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity have been very supportive, Goler said.

"I was outside and told everyone who was out there that my house was open," said Sigma Phi Epsilon house manager Kevin Grady.

The fraternity house became a center of chaos, as it opened its doors for the Red Cross to set up headquarters and allowed police investigators and firemen to use the house as well.

"They basically took over the house," said Sigma Phi Epsilon President Jeremy Carrier.

Throughout the tragedy, Goler found solace. "It felt good that so many people offered help," she said. "We really came together like a community."


Well done, brother and sister Greeks.

[AlphaGamDiva]

EXCELLENT POST!!!!! i needed that.....

[DeltAlum]

Excerpted from the WCMH-TV website:

The crew of Engine 13 in Columbus talked about the weekend fire near Ohio State University that killed five other students. They said that they have never seen so much smoke and flame or felt such severe heat.

The firefighters had raced up a hill behind the house and up the fire escape. They went inside without hoses. People outside were yelling that there were people in the second-floor bedrooms.

Thick smoke covered the second floor.

About a minute later the firefighters had gotten the three students out and were on the ground. Then the second-floor hallway burst into flames, and the crew ran back inside with hoses.

"The rescue probably only took about a minute or a minute-and-a-half to get these three victims out," Columbus Fire Lt. Carl Jepson (pictured, right) said. "We were shorthanded with medics. We had them on the way, so what these gentlemen did was to start first aid on these victims -- to start to get them breathing again because a couple of them were unconscious."

According to SnowLady in another thread from where this article was posted, Lt. Jepson, quoted above, is a Sig Ep from Ohio Northern University.

[CardinalSM]

So what happened?? THe AXiD house caught on fire??

[DeltAlum]

No, there was a fire near the Ohio State Campus that killed three Alpha Gams from Ohio University and two men from Ohio State.

There are two threads -- one called Sad News and the other about the fire being arson elsewhere.