UNIVERSITY
Fire damages Straub basement
By Matt Bender
Emerald Reporter
An electrical fire in the base
ment of Straub Hall filled the
building with smoke and
caused about S250 worth of
damage Tuesday morning, au
thorities said.
Tim Birr, Eugene lire depart
ment spokesman, said the
cause of the fire originated in a
motor in the basement's me
chanical room, which he be
lieved may have been a healing
vontiilation room Two Univer
sity Office of Public Safety offi
cers put out the fire with a port
able extinguisher, he said
OPS Officer Manny Gold
smith said he went into the
basement of the building and
saw some insulation burning
on the floor He -.aid the insula
tion had fallen from some over
head electrical wires where the
fire had started
He said the wires were
among the various pipes and
insulation that run along the
ceiling of the basement of
Straub
Goldsmith said the flames
were about six to eight inches
tall and hr- used a fire extin
guisher to put them out. He
said the smoke was the major
problem and the flames were
easy to extinguish
Eugene police department
Sgt Dennis Baker, whose office
is in Stmub, said he left a meet
ing at about lt:-tS am., and
found the building full of thic k
smoke lie said he and the rest
of the OPS staff had to leave the
building until the smoke tn the
building was cleared out
Ftirr said three engines and
one truck arrived on the scene
at 11 fi 1 a in Firefighters ur
rued with nothing showing"
meaning there was no smoke
( inning outside, Itirr said
Hirr said firefighters observed
that the south end of the base
ment was filled with "a lot of
smoke, hut not a lot of fire "
"Most of the work involved
blowing smoke out o! the base
merit w ith fans,” ftirr said
The lire department vehicles
loft the si cue at U:2B p m . af
ter blowing the smoke out and
cleaning up tfie basement
[taker said the building still
smelled of smoke long after the
fire department left
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