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Originally posted by ZZ-kai-
Didn't the Beta house at OU burn down within the last year, or was that a different school?
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It didn't burn down, but was fairly substantially damaged in an early morning fire which was caused by an overheated lamp igniting the curtains in the formal living room as I recall.
There was one minor injury, a freshman woman who hurt her arm jumping from a second story room.
O.U. requires quarterly fire drills from all Greek housing units, and apparantely the Betas handled this one perfectly -- evacuating and accounting for everyone even before the Fire Department arrived.
It's a really impressive house which has housed the Betas since before I attended school here. I imagine that repairs are complete. I think the fire was just before Christmas Break.
Edited to add, again, as I recall the original story, the other fraternity chapters opened their houses to the Betas and sorority chapters fed those displaced.
Here's a link to the original thread:
http://www.greeksource.com/gcforums/...niversity+Fire
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