Fire safety event planned for Oct. 22

The University’s Environmental Health and Safety Office, in partnership will the Charlotte Fire Department, Sigma Tau Gamma and the student group Fire and Safety Technologists, will hold a fire safety event at 4 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 22, on the front recreational fields near Moore Residence Hall.

The event will be a simulated fire of a residence hall room. Organizers will demonstrate the difference that occurs when a fire starts in a room that is equipped with sprinklers versus one without sprinklers.

According to Kyunda McKnight, fire safety specialist for the University, there have been 83 fatal fires on college campuses between 2000 and 2013. Attendees of the Oct. 22 simulation will learn more about fire safety and what they can do to prevent a fire in their residence hall room, apartment or home.