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Monday, January 26, 2004
Faculty/Staff
are invited to attend
one of the noted sessions
to hear more from
Transportation Services
Director Rod Weis
regarding the new
proposed parking
system plan:
Thursday, January 29
10:00 am-11:30 am
or 11:30 am-1:00 pm
110 Koldus
or 5:00 pm-6:30 pm
111 Koldus
Friday, January 30
1:30 pm-3:00 pm,
3:30 piii-5:00 pm
or 5:00 pm-6:30 pm
110 Koldus
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
Transportation Services
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Fire
broke out in a five-story motel
early Sunday while guests were
asleep, killing six and forcing
others to leap from windows or
climb down bed sheets to safety,
authorities said.
At least a dozen people were
injured, including at least five in
critical condition at a burn unit
in Augusta, Ga.
Guests and authorities said
smoke tilled the motel quickly,
sending guests in their pajamas
into a chaotic scramble for the
exits and a cold rain outside.
“I opened the door and all we
saw was smoke,” said Donessa
Wilson, who said she and her
boyfriend were awakened on the
fourth floor by a tire alarm and
then heard a woman running
down the hall screaming.
The Comfort Inn had stand
pipes and wall-mounted hoses in
the hallways and stairwells, but
none had been activated and no
fire extinguishers were used
before emergency crews arrived,
said Wade Hampton Fire Chief
Gary Downey. He didn't know
the last time the building was
inspected but said it was not
required to have sprinklers.
“If there had been sprinkler
systems in the hallways, proba
bly the fatalities and injuries
would not have been near what
they were,” Downey said.
The blaze began about 4
a.m. on the third floor of the
hotel, which had 46 regis
tered guests. The cause was
under investigation.
All the bodies were found on
the third floor. A young boy was
found lying close to the body of
a woman, along with two other
women found in the hall,
Greenville County Coroner
Parks Evans said. Two more
people — a man and a woman
— were found in separate
rooms, Evans said.
The smoke overcame the vic
tims so quickly that at least two
of them appeared to have fallen
as they were walking or running
down the hall, some of them dis
oriented and moving toward
where the fire was most intense,
Evans said.
Those injured suffered from
smoke inhalation, bums and cuts
received trying to get out the
windows, Downey said.
Wilson said she called the
front desk and was told to
escape down the front stairwell.
“We couldn’t see. There
were people falling all over each
other. We just kept going until
we saw some light," she said.
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Newspaper finds minorities
face more police violence
as well as more than 1.3 million crime dal
records, court testimony, surveillance i
911 tapes and police reports.
AUSTIN (AP) — Austin police officers used
violent tactics against blacks and Hispanics at a
higher rate than they did against whites
between 1998 and 2003, the Austin American-
Statesman reported Sunday.
Blacks were 100 percent more likely than
whites to be met with police violence, while
Hispanics were 25 percent more likely, accord
ing to the newspaper’s analysis.
The newspaper looked at 6,447 “use of force"
reports Austin police officers are required to file,
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nearly a week climbed down from a pt
guard tower to safety Saturday.
The inmates took the guards hostage;
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