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Tuesday, 20 February 2007 |
by LAUREN LAWSON
News Reporter
A frozen water pipe burst forcing two second-floor Bowie Residence Hall students to relocate to another room Thursday afternoon.
A Bowie resident left their window open and heater off causing a pipe to freeze and then break. The break leaked water into the resident’s room, one or two other rooms, the hallway and a stairwell, Traci L. Miodusewski, a junior elementary education major and Bowie RA, said.
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Two students living in Bowie Residence Hall had to relocate to a new room after a water-based heater exploded at 2 p.m. Thursday.
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“When
I came back [to Bowie] there were a lot of maintenance people
everywhere. They helped the two residents move all their stuff out the
room and they are now going to be living on the fourth floor,”
Miodusewski said.
After the incident, e-mails were sent to all Bowie residents asking
them to keep their windows closed and locked, Richard L. Geis, Housing
and Residence Life acting director, said.
“The heat works on a steam generated system powered by water. One line froze and burst and hot water leaked out,” Geis said.
“We usually send out e-mails to all students to warn against leaving
windows open, but we haven’t had this sort of cold sustained weather in
five or six years,” he said.
RAs went to all the rooms in Bowie asking residents to keep their
windows closed and locked and to make sure their heaters were on,
Miodusewski said.
Numerous students from Bowie commented about seeing the posted signs
around the residence hall reminding them to leave windows closed and
locked.
“It is important to lock the windows because sometimes the wind can blow closed windows open,” Geis said.
“It was fortunate that this incident happened during the day. [The]
last time a situation like this happened about five to 10 years ago, it
happened during the night and there was a lot of property damage,” he
said.
Even though there were two rooms that were affected, one room’s
residents decided to remain in the room, but the other residents had to
be relocated, Geis said.
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