MEDIA ADVISORY
April 8, 2002 

TO:  Area News Media

FROM: Centenary News Service
Contact Lynn Stewart, 318-869-5120 

SUBJECT: FIRE AT CENTENARY RESIDENCE HALL
 

SHREVEPORT, LA -- A fire caused by lightning at about 3 a.m. today (Monday, April 8) resulted in the evacuation of the some 190 residents of Cline Hall at Centenary College of Louisiana.

No one was injured and the evacuation went smoothly and according to the College's emergency plan. Students were relocated to temporary quarters set up in the Centenary Fitness Center and the basement of Magale Library. 

The Shreveport Fire Department is returning to campus every 30 minutes for several hours to check the building. The building had reopened by 8 a.m.  

Zeke Aull, Centenary's director of public safety, said that it appears that most of the damage is to the building's roof and an unoccupied room on the third floor.

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