A fire to remember: 50 years on, firefighters recall bad Amherst College fraternity blaze

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A fire to remember: 50 years on, firefighters recall bad Amherst College fraternity blaze

AMHERST — Printed the day after an early morning fire gutted an Amherst College fraternity house, a headline in the Feb. 3, 1975 Daily Hampshire Gazette quoted the Amherst fire chief describing the incident as the “worst Amherst blaze in 15 years.”