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Students displaced after fire
Ryan Hayner
Issue date: 4/27/07 Section: News
Originally published: 4/26/07 at 5:42 PM EST
Last update: 5/7/07 at 8:58 PM EST
Seth Wells was sleeping early Saturday morning in his Lorraine Street apartment when a friend came in and woke him up.
Once awake, Wells, a PSUC junior, realized the house was on fire and he and his friend quickly exited the bottom-level apartment.
Fire tore through 13 Lorraine St. and burned parts of two adjacent buildings and one garage behind the house early Saturday morning and displaced three PSUC students, along with six other individuals.
Plattsburgh City Police was the first on the scene and began evacuating residents from the affected houses before the Plattsburgh Fire Department arrived with Rescue Hose 5, a volunteer unit, to combat the fire, Plattsburgh Fire Chief James Squires said.
The fire, which started at 13 Lorraine St., spread on all sides and caused heat damage to the siding of both 11 Lorraine St. and 17 Lorraine St.
A garage behind 29 Sailly Ave., was also damaged by the fire, Squires said.
PSUC students and sisters Megan and Mindy Smith, along with Wells, were displaced by the fire that destroyed 13 Lorraine St.
Director of Housing and Residence Life Bryan Hartman said the college extended several services to the students.
All three declined free housing in the residence life buildings because they live close by. Megan and Mindy Smith are from Chazy and Wells is in Saranac.
Hartman said faculty members who have those students in their classes were made aware of what happened and urged to reach out to offer help.
Textbooks lost in the fire were given to the students free and ResNet offered to supply computers for the remainder of the semester or try and fix damaged computers.
Project HELP is organizing a coin drive and will donate the proceeds to the Red Cross to be used to help the three students, Hartman said.
Hartman said the efforts made to help the displaced students have become routine over the last 18 months with the number of fires that have left students without housing.
Once awake, Wells, a PSUC junior, realized the house was on fire and he and his friend quickly exited the bottom-level apartment.
Fire tore through 13 Lorraine St. and burned parts of two adjacent buildings and one garage behind the house early Saturday morning and displaced three PSUC students, along with six other individuals.
Plattsburgh City Police was the first on the scene and began evacuating residents from the affected houses before the Plattsburgh Fire Department arrived with Rescue Hose 5, a volunteer unit, to combat the fire, Plattsburgh Fire Chief James Squires said.
The fire, which started at 13 Lorraine St., spread on all sides and caused heat damage to the siding of both 11 Lorraine St. and 17 Lorraine St.
A garage behind 29 Sailly Ave., was also damaged by the fire, Squires said.
PSUC students and sisters Megan and Mindy Smith, along with Wells, were displaced by the fire that destroyed 13 Lorraine St.
Director of Housing and Residence Life Bryan Hartman said the college extended several services to the students.
All three declined free housing in the residence life buildings because they live close by. Megan and Mindy Smith are from Chazy and Wells is in Saranac.
Hartman said faculty members who have those students in their classes were made aware of what happened and urged to reach out to offer help.
Textbooks lost in the fire were given to the students free and ResNet offered to supply computers for the remainder of the semester or try and fix damaged computers.
Project HELP is organizing a coin drive and will donate the proceeds to the Red Cross to be used to help the three students, Hartman said.
Hartman said the efforts made to help the displaced students have become routine over the last 18 months with the number of fires that have left students without housing.
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