What happened at Seton Hall in 2000?
What happened at Seton Hall in 2000?
The Boland Hall fire was a fatal fire in Boland Hall, a freshman residence hall on the Seton Hall University campus in South Orange, New Jersey, United States on January 19, 2000. Three students died and 58 were injured, several with very serious burns. It was one of the deadliest college fires in recent U.S. history.
What caused the fire at Seton Hall?
Joseph LePore He was arrested in June 2003 after investigators said he and Ryan set the fatal fire in their dorm by lighting a banner left lying over a couch in the third floor lounge of Boland Hall.
How many people died in Seton Hall fire?
three freshmen
The Seton Hall fire — which killed three freshmen and injured 58 others — led to a national conversation on the safety of student housing on college campuses.
Who set the Seton Hall fire?
Two former roommates who admitted they set a fire in a dormitory at Seton Hall University that killed three students were sentenced Friday to five years in prison. Joseph T. LePore and Sean Ryan, both 26, admitted in November that they set the fire seven years ago.
What happened at Seton Hall?
A pre-dawn blaze tore through a freshman dorm at Seton Hall University 20 years ago on Jan. 19, killing three students and injuring 58 others in a tragedy that brought national attention to campus fire safety and drove colleges and states to ramp up fire prevention practices and laws.
What law has been enacted since the fire at Seton Hall?
The law — called the Campus Fire Safety Education Act — would create a new federal grant program to help colleges fund fire safety awareness and fire training programs for students living on- and off-campus.
Where was the big fire that started the campus fire safety discussion?
How many campus fires occur each year?
3,800 university
According to the Center for Campus Fire Safety, on average 10 students die annually as a result of campus-related fires. According to the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA), an estimated 3,800 university housing fires occur each year in the United States with 88 percent being cooking fires.
What percentage of residence hall fires are caused by candles?
The U.S. Fire Administration reports that 20 percent of university housing fires in bedrooms are started by candles.
How many dorm fires occur each year?
An estimated 3,800 university housing fires occur each year in the United States. Eighty-eight percent of university housing fires are cooking fires. Small, confined cooking fires account for 81 percent of university housing fires.
What is the largest cause of residence hall fires?
Cooking is the cause of 97 percent of confined university housing fires, which is not surprising given that cooking is the cause of 88 percent of all university housing fires.
