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CONUS Archive
175569
Fire Folo
Columbus, Ohio
PKG N-T
12/15/1999
54:23
1:20
Columbus, Ohio Leslie Siegel, Reporting Warren Cox, Deputy Chief Columbus Fire Dept. David Howard, Student John Kakinda, Student
BUILDING ON FIRE; FIREFIGHTERS SHOOTING WATER ON IT; FIREMAN SOT SAYING HOW PUT FIRE OUT. HOWARD SOT; SHOTS OF SEMINARY IN DAYLIGHT AFTER FIRE WAS WELL OUT; KAKINDA SOT.
A HUGE FIRE AT AN OHIO SEMINARY. NO INJURIES WERE REPORTED. NO CAUSE HAS YET BEEN DETERMINED.
LEAD: INVESTIGATORS THINK AN ELECTRICAL PROBLEM MAY HAVE CAUSED THE MASSIVE FIRE AT THE PONTIFICAL COLLEGE JOSEPHINUM IN OHIO EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING. THE FIRE IS BELIEVED TO HAVE STARTED IN THE ATTIC OF A RESIDENCE HALL AT THE ONE-HUNDRED-ELEVEN YEAR OLD ROMAN, CATHOLIC SEMINARY IN NORTHERN COLUMBUS. LESLIE SIEGEL HAS THE LATEST. (TAKE PKG) SCRIPT: CLOSE TO 70 STUDENTS WERE IN THE DORM WHEN THE THREE ALARM FIRE STARTED; NO INJURIES WERE REPORTED. THE FIRE HAS DAMAGED A DORMITORY AND ALSO CAUSED SMOKE DAMAGE TO A CHAPEL ON THE GROUNDS. THE CATHOLIC SCHOOL IS OPERATED BY SPONSORSHIP OF THE POPE. OFFICIALS SAY IT IS THE WORLD'S ONLY PONTIFICAL SEMINARY OUTSIDE OF ITALY.
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