Word: flue
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...student in Winthrop House reported an entryway was filled with smoke. Students were evacuated. Firefighters discovered that the user of a fireplace on the top floor of J entryway did not open the flue when starting the fire. Firefighters ventilated the entryway and students were allowed back inside...
...Make sure the flue is open. Go to Cafe India on Brattle Street. In the foyer, inconspicuously remove a pack of matches from the bin, without entering the restaurant. Hah! You got them. If waiter sees you, sprint out of restaurant, yelling, "they're after me, they're after me!" Return to dorm room. Light a match and light newspaper in several places. Watch your fire burn! (Matches available at Christie's for free...
...flue was open when the people in the room started the fire, said Glen R. Magid, a resident tutor in Jorden who was in the room at the time...
...Before we started the fire we checked the flue," he said...
Though students took the incident lightly, in the future, they said, they will check the flue carefully...