{"id":7109,"date":"2015-04-01T11:38:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T16:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=7109"},"modified":"2015-04-01T11:38:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T16:38:53","slug":"fire-in-the-science-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/7109","title":{"rendered":"Fire in the Science Center"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Jenni Beaver\u2014Around nine o\u2019clock on Wednesday, March 25, students and faculty in the Science Center were jarred by an unusual sound, the fire alarms going off.<\/p>\n

Claire DeRoin, the building manager for the Science Center, was surprised by the blaring sound. Her first thought was that maintenance had set off the alarms again. That wasn\u2019t an unusual occurrence. However, after realizing that maintenance hadn\u2019t warned her about the situation, this is when her emergency training kicked into gear. The building was evacuated, and security came to attempt an alarm shutdown. Everyone soon realized that this wasn\u2019t a mistake. Something had really set them off.<\/p>\n

The fire department was dispatched, and when they arrived, DeRoin took them through the building. \u201cSo we went down to the main panel and it said there is something going on in one of the microbiology prep labs upstairs\u2026 I looked in the first microbiology prep lab that\u2019s attached to the greenhouse and I kind of looked at the room and it was dark. Then I realized, oh my gosh, that\u2019s smoke.\u201d Smoke was billowing against the windows, and flooding the lab. The fire department sent DeRoin and security outside, so the situation could be handled.<\/p>\n

The fire wasn\u2019t as big as the smoke clouds would suggest, but that isn\u2019t what DeRoin noted as the most impressive moment of the day. \u201cNo one was messing around in classrooms. Students took it seriously, leaving their backpacks and everything behind\u2026 everyone\u2019s emergency training kicked in.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the fire was put out and the smoke diminished, Applied Agriculture and Food Studies professor, Richard Crow was left to put together a clean up crew and assess the damage. \u201cWe\u2019re going to lose some alfalfa plants, but most of our plants are going to be okay\u2026 we had a lot of soot and carbon monoxide and that\u2019s what took out the alfalfa, but it looks like everything else is going to be okay.\u201d<\/p>\n

Classes were resumed around ten-thirty that morning, and the impact of the event was left contained in the greenhouse. As for the cause of the fire, Deputy Fire Marshal, Frank Fulton said it\u2019s simple. \u201cIt was a short or malfunction of the electronic timing unit.\u201d Or, as Professor Crow put it, \u201cthere was a panel on the wall, and now it\u2019s gone.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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