This is probably not the best way to get more space in your laboratory.
The fire in a chemistry lab on the fourth floor of Hunter Hall [at Clemson University] was reported to officials around 9:10 p.m. and was under control roughly 25 minutes later, said Robin Denny, news services director for the university.
The fire took out one of the chemistry labs and caused some damage to the rest of the fourth floor.
The building reportedly was unoccupied at the time of the fire, and officials had not found any indications as of Friday night that any release of chemicals had taken place,
I went to grad school at Clemson, and I’m glad that no one was hurt in the fire.
But … since when is the chemistry building unoccupied – on a weekday – at only 9 PM? Sure, it was a Friday, but there had to be some grad students around!
If anyone else has any info on the fire, please let me know. I’m curious to know what started the fire. So far, I’ve only seen/read this, this, and this.
Yeah, I had wondered the same thing myself – I know from personal experience that there were at least 3 physics grads in Kinard at that time. The chemists are slacking off! I don’t know about the fire, but Sikes Hall had a bomb threat this morning. Probably not connected.
Bomb threat? When it rains, it pours. (Thankfully, it’s been a few years since our last bomb threat here – where I was asked to “just go in and take a look around” while the students stood around outside the science building)
I’m still not buying that there was NOBODY in Hunter. I know that chemistry now has research space elsewhere, but …