<p>Has anyone heard anything about the fire in NC that apparently has killed some USC students? My D called to say that she was supposed to have a meeting at her sorority today, and when she arrived, there was a note on the door saying that all meetings were cancelled due to an emergency. There are rumors around campus, and I found this posted on cnn.com:</p>
<p>OCEAN ISLE BEACH, North Carolina (AP) -- Fire swept through a beach house believed occupied by college students early Sunday, killing an unknown number of people and sending several to a hospital, authorities said.</p>
<p>Investigators had not yet been inside the house by late morning.</p>
<p>"We do know there are some fatalities," Mayor Debbie Smith said. "We do not know how many."</p>
<p>"I understand there were some college kids in the house. Some got out. Some did not," Mayor Debbie Smith said.</p>
<p>Smith said officials didn't immediately know how many died in the fire, but witnesses said investigators had started removing bodies from the charred wreckage by early afternoon.</p>
<p>"It's terrible to see somebody's children come out of that house this way," said Bob Alexander, who lives next to the home on Scotland Street.</p>
<p>The fire was under control by late Sunday morning, the mayor said.</p>
<p>Alexander said that while parts of the building's frame were still visible, "there's nothing usable left. It's completely destroyed."</p>
<p>The four-alarm blaze had "totally engulfed" the house a little before 7 a.m., said Nick Cain, a student at the University of North Carolina who was staying at a house about 100 feet away.</p>
<p>"The house is standing, but it's totally gutted," Cain said. "We ran down the street to get away. The ash and the smoke were coming down on us. We were just trying to get away."</p>
<p>Cain said some of his friends had met several people staying at the house, and he said most appeared to be students from the University of South Carolina.</p>
<p>Representatives of the South Carolina school had been in touch with officials in Ocean Isle Beach, but they had no solid information on how many USC students, if any, were involved, university spokesman Russ McKinney said.</p>
<p>Six people from the fire were taken to Brunswick Community Hospital, said spokeswoman Amy Myers. She said five were treated and released and the sixth was in listed in fair condition.</p>
<p>Ocean Isle Beach is at the far southern end of North Carolina's Atlantic Coast, about 30 miles north of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Only about 500 people live there year-round, but the town is home to several thousand rental and vacation homes and condos. E-mail to a</p>