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The Daily OrangeShaw Hall fire leaves two injured
By Stephanie Musat
Posted: 4/10/08, 10:41 PM EST Section: News
"We didn't know what was going on," she said. "We didn't find out any information. We were standing out there for a really long time, and I was petrified to go back in."
When the second alarm sounded, Berman said she was told to gather her belongings and leave because the floor was flooded.
Marisa Novak, an undecided freshman in the College of Human Ecology who lives on the third floor in Shaw, said she, too, thought that it was a false alarm at first.
"I was really surprised and a little scared when I first heard the alarm," she said. "I was sound asleep. It was startling."
She evacuated the building and waited outside, thinking that the residents would be let in soon after the alarm originally sounded.
"Nobody told us what was going on, so we were standing outside with no information," she said. "I thought it was a false alarm
- photo editor Stephen Dockery and asst. feature editor Erinn Connor contributed reporting.
sdmusat@syr.edu
When the second alarm sounded, Berman said she was told to gather her belongings and leave because the floor was flooded.
Marisa Novak, an undecided freshman in the College of Human Ecology who lives on the third floor in Shaw, said she, too, thought that it was a false alarm at first.
"I was really surprised and a little scared when I first heard the alarm," she said. "I was sound asleep. It was startling."
She evacuated the building and waited outside, thinking that the residents would be let in soon after the alarm originally sounded.
"Nobody told us what was going on, so we were standing outside with no information," she said. "I thought it was a false alarm
- photo editor Stephen Dockery and asst. feature editor Erinn Connor contributed reporting.
sdmusat@syr.edu
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