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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2006
》 SUA
Haunted Hawks Nights undergoes makeover
BY MATT ELDER
To attract a larger student audience, Student Union Activities has made several additions to its annual Haunted Hawks Nights event.
This year's event will feature psychic and tarot card reader Tina Lee, who works at Lawrence Metaphysical, 727 Massachusetts St.
"She's kind of a cook," said Taylor Miller, Hawks Nights coordinator, "which makes things fun."
The event, which has occurred for the past decade, will take place Saturday in the Hawk's Nest of the Kansas Union. SUA is promoting it as an alcohol-free alternative to Halloween parties.
Almost 300 people attended last year, making it one of the group's largest annual events. Costumes are encouraged but not required.
The event will also offer a pumpkin-carving contest with $400 in
prizes.
"Last year it was all engineering majors that won the contest," Miller said. "So we'll see what happens this year."
Kathy Talbot, student development adviser for union programs, said that the Hawks Nights Committee decided to show a movie from SUA's film committee. At midnight after the Haunted Hawkes event, SUA will show the film "Army of Darkness."
The event will also have free candy apples, apple cider and caramel popcorn. The event will not affect the weekly SUA-sponsored cosmic bowling event from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. every Friday and Saturday.
Kansan staff writer Matt Elder can be contacted at melder@ kansan.com.
Edited by Shanxi Upsdell
Wildfire kills four; arson suspected
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BY GILLIAN FLACCUS ASSOCIATED PRESS
POPPET FLAT, Calif. — A wind-whipped wildfire started by an arsonist killed four firefighters Thursday and stranded up to 400 people in an RV park when flames burned to the edge of the only road out, officials said.
"Everybody is hunkered down here. They're fighting the fire around us. It's across the street from us," said Charles Van Brunt, a ranger at the station at the entrance to Silent Valley Club, the recreational vehicle park near Palm Springs. The residents were in no immediate danger, he said.
Authorities asked people in the RV park to stay put to leave the roads clear for firefighters. Hundreds of others in the area were forced from their homes.
Fire officials said the fire was deliberately set around 1 a.m. and offered a $100,000 reward. Fire Chief
John Hawkins said the arson "constitutes murder."
The Forest Service crew was trying to protect a house as dry desert winds of 25 mph or more blew a wall of flames down on them in the hills northwest of Palm Springs.
"They had left their truck to do structure protection when the fire overran them," said Forest Service spokesman Pat Boss, adding the flames came down so quickly they had no time to retreat to their engine or use protective sheltering.
Three firefighters died at the scene and two were hospitalized in critical condition. One of those two
died several hours later. The other had burns over 95 percent of his body, Boss said.
One other firefighter in the burned-out fire engine was critically injured, Boss said.
He said the Forest Service pulled all its personnel off the fire after the deaths so they could "gather their thoughts, say their prayers."
The fire quickly blackened more than six square miles and destroyed at least three homes. The weather service had issued a "red flag" warning for extreme fire danger because of the high winds and dry conditions.
Thick smoke blanketed the small
RV park off Highway 243, where as many as 400 people were stranded, authorities said. TV footage showed some vehicles racing through flames and smoke just before firefighters closed the road.
The cause of the wildfire was not immediately clear. It started early Thursday, burning in a valley with a few scattered ranch homes. The hamlets of Poppet Ranch and Twin Pines were evacuated along with a juvenile detention center, Twin Pines Boys Ranch.
Evacuations were ordered, and by early morning, about 200 people had left their homes, fire Capt. Julie Hutchinson said.
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