Kentucky Fraternity House Destroyed By Fire

A fire gutted an empty fraternity house at Murray State on Saturday night.
June 6, 2004
MURRAY, Ky. (AP) -- A fire gutted an empty fraternity house at Murray State on Saturday night.

No one was injured.

Murray police received the call reporting the fire at the Pi Kappa Alpha house at 7:19 p.m. CDT.

Chapter president Jason Henson told The Paducah Sun that the 27-year-old, one-story brick house on Stadium View Drive was locked up for the summer in mid-May. Fraternity officers live in the home during the school year. The fraternity has 65 members.

``The positive thing is no one was in it and no one was hurt,'' Don Robertson, vice president for student affairs, told the newspaper. ``It could have been a much worse situation.''

Firefighters were still at the scene three hours after the blaze started.

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