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Sunday, November 04, 2007

Probable Cause


'... The fire that killed seven South Carolina college students at Ocean Isle Beach last Sunday morning started on the deck of the house - possibly ignited by "discarded smoking materials."

... A fire at the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house that killed five University of North Carolina students in 1996 was blamed on a cigarette tossed into a trash can.

Two East Carolina University students died in 2003 when smoking material, thought to be a cigarette, fell onto a couch and smoldered before setting their second-floor Greenville apartment on fire.

In 2005, two N.C. State University students died in an off-campus duplex rented by their fraternity when a cigarette left behind after a party set a couch on fire...'