I live across the street from ATO in the Beta house and I was there the morning the fire happened. I got up about 30 minutes after it started so when I got outside the fire trucks were already spraying the house. Some of my brothers said they heard fire alarms going off in the house before the firefighters arrived. However, I was talking to one of the ATOs who lived there at the time and he said he was woken by the smoke, not the alarm. He had a burn on his arm, so he was lucky to make it out when he did. As for the official cause of the fire, the campus newspaper reported that the cause was undetermined, but it was not intentionally set nor electrical. As of last week there was some confusion over whether the case has been officially closed by the ATF or not.
Howard, Jordan, and Will, you will be missed.
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