News
Progressive Labor Party Organizes Solidarity March With Harvard Yard Encampment
News
Encampment Protesters Briefly Raise 3 Palestinian Flags Over Harvard Yard
News
Mayor Wu Cancels Harvard Event After Affinity Groups Withdraw Over Emerson Encampment Police Response
News
Harvard Yard To Remain Indefinitely Closed Amid Encampment
News
HUPD Chief Says Harvard Yard Encampment is Peaceful, Defends Students’ Right to Protest
Quick action on the part of two Winthrop House residents and a tutor prevented a blaze in J-35 from possibly gutting a whole floor last Saturday night.
J. Anthony Lukas '55, who first discovered the fire, Richard A. Levin '54, and Fine Arts instructor James W. Fowle confined the flames to one room and brought them under control with fire extinguishers before the arrival of the Cambridge Fire Department.
Firemen raised a ladder to the third floor window and completed the job of extinguishing the fire with fog-spray equipment. One wall and a section of floor were partially burned through, and a couch, a rug, and two pairs of skis were destroyed. Steven C. Swett '56 and William E. Lingelbach '56, residents of the room, estimated personal property damage at about $500.
Lukas was preparing to go to bed just after midnight when he smelled smoke.
Want to keep up with breaking news? Subscribe to our email newsletter.