Alarm brings fire crews to Maeser Lab/Widtsoe

TRUCKS ON THE QUAD: Fire crews parked next to Maeser/Widtsoe to check out an alarm as students and professors, evacuated from the building, mill around. / Photo by Jill Prichard

By Jill Prichard

April 11, 2005 | Two fire engines and two fire trucks crowded the Maeser Lab/Widtsoe Hall Monday afternoon as they responded to a fire alarm.

Fire officials ruled out the possibility of a chemical spill or the involvement of chemicals.

The fire was believed to be caused by a plastic tub that caught fire under a bunsen burner, but no official determination had been made as of midafternoon.

(Later Monday, fire officials said an experiment in Maeser had caught fire and was quickly extinguished. No injuries were reported.)

This is the second incident in this building this semester. In January the building was evacuated when a bottle of pyridine was dropped and broken and the chemical exposed.

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