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Monday, August 30.1976
University Daily Kansan
Burned frat .
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Walker said that both the Baker dean of students and the house corporations of individual Greek houses supervised the Baker houses.
Carlson said his volunteer department, which it operated in a third-class city, had no control over fire inspections unless they were requested by a building's owner. He was actually inspected Kappa Sigma's fire extinguisher last spring at the fraternity's request.
LOCAL AUTHORITIES have a responsibility, Dibber said, to report to his office a situation they can't take care of themselves.
He said the Baldwin City department had the same authority to make inspections as the City of Los Angeles.
Fire-fighting efforts apparently weren't hampered by extremely low water supplies in Iskander City, Carlson said, but further study is needed to understand disastrous because of the low water levels.
About two dozen persons were staying in
the kappa Sigma house Sunday morning, according to a university spokesman.
Two of the bodies were found in a third floor closet above the area where the fire apparently started. Officials said the two bodies were from the same building, through a closet window, which was closed.
Damage estimates weren't available yesterday.
ANOTHER VICTIM was found on the second floor of the older part of the house. He apparently had fallen through from the third floor.
The Kappa Sigma house was built in 1917 after a 1915 fire destroyed a previous building. A two-story addition was built in 1968.
Safety of KU
Dennis Domer, assistant to the dean of architecture and urban design at KU, and Baker's Kappa Sigma chapter adviser, said fraternity members arrived on campus last weekend to prepare for rush, which begins tomorrow. Baker's enrollment is Monday and Tuesday and classes there are scheduled to begin Thursday.
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Fire inspections are conducted once or twice a year at his house, he said.
mortar, that combustible are kept in safe places and that doors swing out rather than closing.
CARYL SMITH, associate dean of women and Panhellenic adviser, said fire inspections were to be made at least once a year and could be held more often.
Gilliam said the Lawrence Fire Department's inspections followed the "Life Safety Code," the same regulations used by the state fire marshal. The code was written by the National Fire Prevention Association in 1970.
The code says buildings must have enclosed stairwells. An enclosed stairwell is equipped with metal fire doors and walls of steel or fiberglass that will stand fire for at least one hour.
But Gilliam said the Lawrence Fire Department decided that the cost of remodeling a house to include enclosed windows could be $10,000. The apartment couldn't ask the houses to do so.
INSTEAD, THE department requires
a letter of recommendation, said,
which distinguishes the degree or
meet.
The department also requires Greek houses to have extinguishing systems in the kitchens, adequate fire extinguisher throughout the buildings, early-warning door and two exits on each floor. An open stairwell does not count as an. Gillian said.
Each exit must have quick-opening
access; each exit must have a lighted
exit sign above the door.
ANNE HALVERHOUT, president of Chi
Omaa, said the fire department recently
. . .
installed new fire extinguishers in the
plant. The security sorority has two fire
drill a semester.
The Kappa Alpha Theta house also has two钻 a driller, a secretary, according to Mr. Schmickel.
Andrea said the Kappa Sigma house would have a fire drill in the next week, and probably would continue having them. They haven't conducted drills in the past, he said.
THESE IN THE HOME Sunday morning had been done clean-up chores and painting. Although early reports indicated that point fumes might have ignited to cause the fire, Carlson said investigators didn't think point fuel used was a factor in the fire's severity.
University officials said fraternity members would live in dorms, other fraternities or a vacant wing of a sorority building for now.
vice-president nominee, yesterday called Monte Miller, publisher of the Baldwin Ledger, to offer condolences about the tragedy. Miller said Dole, who belonged to Kappa Sigma while at KU, had a busy campaign schedule and probably wouldn't visit Baldwin City today, as had been reported.
Kansas Sen. Robert Dole, Republican
Dole, Miller said, visited the Baker campus within the past year and initially wanted to fly there for the memorial services.
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