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Dec 1, 2009
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Kenmore kitchen fire evacuates apartment complex
By Renata Brito & Taylor Miles/[BU] Daily Free Press - November 30, 2009
Four Boston Fire Department trucks responded to a kitchen fire Monday night on the third floor of a Kenmore Square apartment building, next to Myles Standish Hall, after chicken that residents were cooking caught fire on the stove.
The seven-story “Belvoir” building at 636 Beacon St., which houses Fin’s Japanese Sushi and Grill and UBurger, was evacuated after the fire set off one box alarm at about 8:30 p.m., along with the sprinklers, according to BFD Chief George Wyman. No one was injured, and residents were evacuated safely.
The sprinklers extinguished most of the flames by the time fire fighters had arrived and flames did not spread from the stovetop, officials said. There was minor water damage from the sprinklers and the fire hose, BFD Incident Command Technician Michael Teehan said.
One resident, wet from the sprinklers, who would not reveal his name because he lives in the apartment in which the incident occurred, described the fire as “beyond mild.”
“Nothing in the apartment actually caught fire,” he said.
Boston University 2009 alumna Caitlin McDermott, who lives on the sixth floor, said at first she thought it was just a drill and was unaware there was a fire.
International Students Discuss Their Thanksgiving Experiences
By Meghan Nelson/MIT Tech STAFF REPORTER - December 1, 2009
If you’re from the U.S., feasts and family gatherings probably come to mind before media clips and TV shows when you think of Thanksgiving.
But for Hannah M. Woodcock ’11, a Cambridge-MIT Exchange student, and plenty of other international students at MIT, just the opposite is true.
Woodcock, for one, admits that all she knew about Thanksgiving before coming to the U.S. she had learned from Thanksgiving specials on the TV show “Friends.”
Tung Shen Chew ’11 from Malaysia knew from TV that the American holiday of Thanksgiving existed but, at the same time, he “didn’t care about it at all.”
While most domestic students returned home to their families over Thanksgiving, international students generally found the break too short to make a trek home worthwhile. Many, instead, crafted their own domestic trips, often in groups with other international students.
Thais M. Terceiro Jorge ’12 from Brazil went to New York with other international students from Cyprus, Colombia, and Venezuela during her freshman year Thanksgiving break. Even though she visited tourist locations, the weekend decidedly lacked a festive feel: “It was not Thanksgiving, it was just, ‘Oh, I have four days off. I’m going to travel somewhere.’”
By Renata Brito & Taylor Miles/[BU] Daily Free Press - November 30, 2009
Four Boston Fire Department trucks responded to a kitchen fire Monday night on the third floor of a Kenmore Square apartment building, next to Myles Standish Hall, after chicken that residents were cooking caught fire on the stove.
The seven-story “Belvoir” building at 636 Beacon St., which houses Fin’s Japanese Sushi and Grill and UBurger, was evacuated after the fire set off one box alarm at about 8:30 p.m., along with the sprinklers, according to BFD Chief George Wyman. No one was injured, and residents were evacuated safely.
The sprinklers extinguished most of the flames by the time fire fighters had arrived and flames did not spread from the stovetop, officials said. There was minor water damage from the sprinklers and the fire hose, BFD Incident Command Technician Michael Teehan said.
One resident, wet from the sprinklers, who would not reveal his name because he lives in the apartment in which the incident occurred, described the fire as “beyond mild.”
“Nothing in the apartment actually caught fire,” he said.
Boston University 2009 alumna Caitlin McDermott, who lives on the sixth floor, said at first she thought it was just a drill and was unaware there was a fire.
International Students Discuss Their Thanksgiving Experiences
By Meghan Nelson/MIT Tech STAFF REPORTER - December 1, 2009
If you’re from the U.S., feasts and family gatherings probably come to mind before media clips and TV shows when you think of Thanksgiving.
But for Hannah M. Woodcock ’11, a Cambridge-MIT Exchange student, and plenty of other international students at MIT, just the opposite is true.
Woodcock, for one, admits that all she knew about Thanksgiving before coming to the U.S. she had learned from Thanksgiving specials on the TV show “Friends.”
Tung Shen Chew ’11 from Malaysia knew from TV that the American holiday of Thanksgiving existed but, at the same time, he “didn’t care about it at all.”
While most domestic students returned home to their families over Thanksgiving, international students generally found the break too short to make a trek home worthwhile. Many, instead, crafted their own domestic trips, often in groups with other international students.
Thais M. Terceiro Jorge ’12 from Brazil went to New York with other international students from Cyprus, Colombia, and Venezuela during her freshman year Thanksgiving break. Even though she visited tourist locations, the weekend decidedly lacked a festive feel: “It was not Thanksgiving, it was just, ‘Oh, I have four days off. I’m going to travel somewhere.’”
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