FIRE Cont. from page 1 and phone lines. At present the fire alarm system, walk- way lights, and a monitor to a biology lab have also been temporarily reconnected. |

Coles said that it will take at least 6-8 weeks to get new cables in to make the connections permanent, and that restoring every- thing damaged back to nor- mal may take upward of 2 months. said Coles, “there is no reason why we cannot function on a normal basis.” :

Coles

an estimate

“However,”

offer dollar

could . not of the amount of damage.

Dalton Hall suffered the most smoke damage and cleaning crews worked through the week- end to allow the building to

be used again by Monday.

Most other buildings on cam- pus were also scrubbed with a cleaning agent to reduce smoke odour.

PREVENTION

Coles said that the insu- lating pipe that fed the fire is one that is commonly used. He said that although the in- sulation is flammable, it is coated with a thick layer of PVC plastic and that once the pipe is in place, it is un-

Ic ; IMN off air ~ again — -ONE CASUALTY of the jrunnel fire was CIMN radio who had cables linking the gstation to its transmitter de-

stroyed again.

The 700 AM regular broadcast of CIMN to Blan- chard, Bernardine, and Mar- ian Halls will not be able to be heard until technicians can replace the cable de- stroyed. Fortunately the ca- ble broadcast of CIMN on the FM. band has been unaf- fected.

A source at CIMN said that it shouldn’t take long before service to the resi- dences is up and running. The cable is readily available and it is only a matter of go- ing into the tunnels and re- placing them.

Unlike the last time CIMN was cut off the air, the source at CIMN said that they began receiving com- plaints from listeners could no longer tune in the station almost immediately patter the fire.

likely for something to get through that insulation to expose the flarnamable mate- rial beneath.

However, welders. from Steens Contractors, the firm hired to install the heating pipe, said that they did not know the exposed insulation could burn. -This proved to

who-

be a very dangerous and ex- pensive lack of information as it was a welders torch that apparently started the blaze. In fact, because of the plastic insulation coating the pipe, the only time it could conceivably set on fire would be during installation when the flammable section is ex-

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The university has no plans to call for the replace- ment of the pipe. at least

However, now the workmen know it is flammable.

Don Coles said that the university will be looking into preventing smoke from another such fire from affect- He said that one solution would be to install each building’s. maintenance room, where the service tun- nel enters the building. In the event of a fire, the blow-

ing campus buildings.

blowers in

ers would be activated caus- ing positive pressure to blow smoke back into the tunnels and out manhole covers.

to

have learned something from the Propane incident of 1985, however. With that near- disaster, four hours passed before the fire department was called.

Two years later they have improved their re- sponse time as it appears the fire department was called immediately. Now after this near-disaster hopefully the university will take another step— that of more preven- tion so that there will be no such event two years from now in late October 1989. «=

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