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...House recently, you might have seen ladders and cables scattered throughout the House. Unfortunately, this construction project does not portend an exciting new treehouse party space for Quadlings. Instead, the hard-hat wearing (and sometimes noisy) workers are installing something a bit more mundane—a fire-fighting sprinkler system...
According to Zak M. Gingo '98, director of facilities management and operations, the University has been working since last year on a two-year infrastructural modification—the installation of the sprinkler system in all the University's residential buildings. Currier is the last undergraduate residential building to have the sprinklers installed, and most of that work will take place this summer...
...scene at 2:14 p.m. Thursday, after hot exhaust from a generator escaped from a ventilation system and ignited insulation in the attic of McCulloch Hall, according to Boston Fire Department Spokesman Steve MacDonald. He said that roughly 35 firefighters responded and noted that the building’s sprinkler system was activated...
...scene, Richard is exploring backstage, and we feel his pleasure in his insider status; he's puffed up from it. Then he lights a match to better examine graffiti left by someone who walked these boards in earlier days and inadvertently sets off the theater's sprinkler system, dousing everything, including Welles, who is madder than a wet cat. It perfectly catches the mood of the theater as seductress: one minute, she wants you, she makes you feel blessed, another, she reminds you what a buffoon you are to believe you belong here...
...rains likely contributed to the leak, as the precipitation could have created sink-holes around the gas main, which had allowed the gas to escape from a pre-existing crack. The gas then likely followed the newly-installed water main that feeds Old Quincy’s sprinkler system into the building. “The gas follows the path of least resistance,” Murphy said. “The soil around the recent excavation [for the water main] probably isn’t as compact as the surrounding soil.” Despite the leak, the House?...