Former Phi Delt house at USC burns down

[gphiangel624]

NBC 4 news link

Fire Rips Through Abandoned USC Frat House
Nobody Injured In Overnight Blaze

POSTED: 7:58 am PDT April 21, 2005
UPDATED: 8:04 am PDT April 21, 2005

LOS ANGELES -- Nobody was injured in a fast-burning fire at an abandoned two-story USC fraternity house overnight.

Images: Abandoned Frat House Fire

The fire was reported just past midnight at 1005 28th St., according to Los Angeles Fire Capt. James Littlefield.

About 125 firefighters had the blaze extinguished about two hours later, Littlefield said.

The fraternity house was abandoned a couple years ago, when the residing Phi Delta Theta fraternity chapter was kicked off the USC campus. Fraternity members told NBC4 the house has been empty since 2003.

(Video provided by On Scene Video Productions. For more information, write On Scene Video.)
Copyright 2005 by NBC4.tv. City News Service contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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I'm just glad that no one was living there, so hopefully no one was hurt... and I'm wondering just how it got started.

[ZetaPhi708]

probably homeless residents?

[amycat412]

WOW. I was just down there last Friday and passed the house and had FOND memories of one of my first fraternity parties ever there. It was a beautiful house--tho in need of work.

Phi Delt was next door to--but across a street next door-- the Kappa Kappa Gamma house.


Here's the link to the story in the Daily Trojan:

http://www.dailytrojan.com/news/933440.html




(edited for spelling error)

[Tom Earp]

WOW, what awesome distructive photos.

A plus tho is that no one was living there and died.

Hope covered by insurance

[epchick]

Wow, those are crazy photos. Scary...hopefully there was no one in the house when that happened.

[mmcat]

wow...thank god no one was in there.
those flames were amazing...