The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/fire/page/2/)
Firefighters rescued a cat and treated it with a pet oxygen resuscitation mask as they drove it to the Cornell Companion Animal Hospital, where the cat died of its injuries.
Firefighters and officers respond to call about blazing tractor trailer whose fire spread to nearby Agway supply store.
The house sustained some minor structural damage, according to Apgar, centered around the upstairs fire escape and deck.
Ithaca and Trumansburg Fire Departments responded to a TCAT bus on fire Friday afternoon. No injuries were reported.
The male firefighter, who has not been identified, had “an elevated heart rate issue” but was out of the hospital by Sunday and is doing well.
A hot plate heated up without the resident’s knowledge and ignited combustible material that had been sitting on the plate, a fire official said.
Nine Cornell track and field athletes are temporarily displaced after a fire on the third floor of their Collegetown house caused moderate damage to the residence on Monday afternoon.
A fire under a fume hood in Weill Hall drew several fire trucks to Cornell on Thursday afternoon, but the only reported injury was to a mouse who was undergoing surgery at the time.
“We are first and foremost going to get the Chapter House open and then we will continue on and focus on the apartments,” Dietz said.
At Lambda Chi Alpha’s ’90s party on Friday, it didn’t “Smell Like Teen Spirit,” but more like smoke.
At 12:30 a.m. on Saturday morning, the fraternity was in the middle of hosting a party, when one of the brothers began to smell smoke coming from outside in the fraternity’s shed.
“There were no visual cues,” explained Marcus Sabolis ’11, vice president of the fraternity. “Someone just smelled it through a closed door. The fact that someone was aware enough to recognize it was really lucky on our part.”
When the brothers rushed outside, they found their shed on fire.