Fan the Flames

Football players help rescue boy in summer fire Marquel Franklin sat on the second-story ledge of his burning house with nowhere to go, just seconds before the floor beneath him would crumble. A group of Liberty University football players stood below encouraging him to jump if he wanted to survive. Franklin leapt, escaping the flames seconds after the floor underneath […]

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Kitchen fire threatens South Campus

The shrill sound of a fire alarm that every dorm resident dreads hearing went off in male Dorm 32 shortly after 9 p.m. last Monday. This time it was not a drill. Quad residents swarmed out of the smoke-filled building and into the surrounding parking lots. The wide-eyed, confused students stood far enough away to escape the smoke, but close […]

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