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fire at Lothian kitchen

happened on the night of 4-25-2004, 4-26 morning

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You will find more info about in this week's issue of the Highlander highlander.ucr.edu
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Stevie 03-May-2004 20:57
Great photos! Happy all are safe.
Ex Lothian Manager 30-Apr-2004 20:24
This building was never designed properly from the start. The kitchen has(at least last time I was there) fire suppression equipment above all of the fryers ovens etc. There has been a fire in the basement of the food service area (1997), funny thing that with it being an old part of the building it did have sprinklers and the fire was contained to one storage room. If you've ever been up in the crawl spaces of the building you will see that the construction of the whole thing is substandard. I know dining services alone spent a lot of money just trying to get the thing retrofitted over the years to function as a kitchen. There were people who tried to get the university to spend money to build an adequate, functioning kitchen back in the late 80's early 90's, they would not listen. If you ever go and take a look at A&I, you will see that the construction was done properly and that is why it has lasted as long with upgrades and retrofits over it's 40+ year life.
I hope that the fire department finds out what/who caused the problem, there were so many times in that building we had transformers burn up, freight elevator controls burning up; I'm amazed the place lasted 14 years.
Glad nobody was hurt, let's hope that more care is taken in the future to hire reputable contractors and build things right the first time. They should just demolish the whole back end of that building and rebuild it right all the way out to Big Springs.

Good job with the pictures!
jin 29-Apr-2004 09:26
poor freshmen
Guest 29-Apr-2004 08:38
Thank you because you provide pictoral answers to how big the fire was
Guest 29-Apr-2004 08:31
GeNiCe 247 (1:29:31 AM): u seem to capture the beauty in even the most devastaing events
kw21 (1:29:48 AM): haha, thanks genice, you make me feel so special
Guest 29-Apr-2004 08:25
hey mentor/easily amused RA/fellow ARD Kev ... man ur pix rock my world! even looking at then tho, i still can't believe its gone *tear*
keep up the GOOD WORK!!!!!
CDW 29-Apr-2004 07:25
I am referenced by Erik Ruggels. Nice pictures you got there. I am glad everyone is alright and that the FD got there in time to save the dormies from further misery. I just hope the school won't charge even higher tuition on top of the already tight budget problem.
Sarah 29-Apr-2004 07:14
Kevin~
I always look at ur pics and never tell you this, but you do such amazing stuff. I love all your galleries, especially the pics you did of pentland. Just amazing stuff. We are all soo lucky u share it with us. Thanks so much !

Sarah (the former RA ;) )
Marlon 28-Apr-2004 20:28
Kevin,
your work is always top knotch. if it's ok with you i've linked this site in my profile. if it's not ok then...i dont know...thanks again man.
your fellow RA,
Marlon - West Lo
James 28-Apr-2004 11:01
Wow, great pics dude!
Kevin W. 28-Apr-2004 09:21
dorkachi and others that are interested on the time stamp info: You can find out exactly when each photo was taken if you click on the "exif" link on the photo page. You will also find out how I took those photos (aperature, shutter speed, iso etc...)

Thanks to you all for your comments. I appreciate it very much. Don't hesitate to contact me if you think something should be covered on our campus community. kkwan@cs.ucr.edu
iamforchrist 28-Apr-2004 08:08
whoa.... crazy, man. whoa. thanks for posting them, bro! this is some good photojournalism :-)
Leah 28-Apr-2004 06:46
Yikes! The fire looked really bad.
Nonetheless the pix were incredible!

Anyways, thanx a lot for posting! :D

~*Leah*~
dorkachi 28-Apr-2004 06:40
wow nice nice nice.. i didn't know it was that bad! I didn't even get to see the fire, even though i live in east lothian ><.. good job and thx! But I think it would be great if u put time of each picture on it
Will 28-Apr-2004 04:33
Yo Kevin!

I've got to say, Excellent pictures. Thanks for taking these and sharing them with the rest of the UCR community. Also, as a fellow Highlander Staff member, I'm impressed by your dedication to getting these pictures in the paper this week.

-Will
LambdaChi098 27-Apr-2004 22:43
Hey, I am glad that everyone is alright! I have a couple of brothers that live there and they stayed at my friends for the night. Hope they get it fixed soon.
Colleen 27-Apr-2004 22:03
this fire was crazy.. nice pics! too bad tho... =T but hopefully they'll be able to clean it up soon... at least we get more dining options, thats kinda nice.
Brent 27-Apr-2004 07:28
if it weren't for you i wouldn't know there was a fire on campus. i've been so out of touch lately

Good work
Peter 27-Apr-2004 07:09
That was a crazy night. How many people skipped class the next day, I wonder...
Levi 27-Apr-2004 06:55
Dude, where are the pictures of the burning bodies and what not? I want to see more carnage and mayhem.
AngeLin 27-Apr-2004 06:50
Deng!!! MADD CRAZY! I'm just glad everyone was "okay". Marlon told me this morning and I just couldn't believe it. Good job capturing the incident Kevin!
Dirrtydiesil 27-Apr-2004 04:24
Great pics!!!
Sarah 27-Apr-2004 00:48
Glad everyone is safe and sound... but look on the bright side there are now extended dinning optoions in the commons! i hope that every one who lives in Lothian is ok!!! love you all!!!
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