It was August 30, 2006 and there it was. The article on fatal off-campus house fires was on the front page of that day’s edition of USA TODAY. I had been so pleased to receive a call, some three weeks earlier, from a reporter working on the story. They had done extensive research on all the fatal off-campus house fires across the country since 2000, and the article would run just in time for college students moving into off-campus housing for the upcoming school year. It was everyone’s hope that this article would keep other college kids from making the mistakes of…
Kimberly Wencl
Kimberly Wencl is a retired wife/mother living in Southern Minnesota. In addition to her volunteer activities with church, hospice and Salvation Army she also writes and speaks on grief, loss and transformation.
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