the Informer

RACHEL WURDMAN

No cause has been determined yet as to what started a minor fire in the Village Quad No. Five on Thursday that injured no residents.

However, the fire will displace some students for an undetermined period of time.

The fire was reported at around 7:55 p.m. and most students were allowed back into the building at around 9 p.m.

A resident in the apartment where the fire started, Lucas Dantas, said one of his friends came back from the gym and said, “The whole kitchen was on fire.”

Director of the Office of Residential Life Michael Malone said that in the last week, four students were able to return to their apartments. However, the five other displaced students remain in different apartments.

Alexa Alfonso, a resident who lived under the apartment where the fire started, said, “It was all really unexpected. My roommate and I have been living in that apartment for the past two years and now five weeks before we graduate we’re forced to move into a quad where we don’t know really know anyone.”

Despite the unexpected move, Alfonso isn’t too worried.

“I’m going to make the best of it, but this honestly could have ruined the rest of my senior year,” she said.