Fire in County South

Thursday afternoon, just before 1:00pm, a fire alarm went off in County. As with many campus events, a video quickly went live on the Overheard at Lancaster facebook page.

Smoke rose from the top floor of County South, blackening the area around the window.

Updated at 4:08pm: SCAN has been informed the fire blew out the window itself.

"We were evacuated around 12:45." a student told SCAN.

"Four fire engines turned up apparently! The smoke stopped pretty quickly once they arrived. We were let back in around 1:40"

SCAN will continue to follow this story as more information is released.

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This article was written by Alexandra Brock.

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