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     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- 
     
    
   
   
    
     student 
     
     discoun 
     
    
   
   
    
     us 
     
    
   
   
    
     For The Best 
     
     Chicken In Town 
     
    
   
   
    
     deliver! 
     
    
   
   
    
     121 St. Peter’s Rd. 
     
     Parkdale, P.E.1. 
     
    
   
   
    
     pas Mary Brown's Fried Chicken 
     
    
   
   
    
     Nothing else comes close. 
     
    
   
   
    
     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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