Pipe breaks in KU sorority, causes water damage

Turns out Kansas University’s Hashinger Hall isn’t the only student housing with water problems.

Firefighters from Lawrence-Douglas County Fire and Medical responded this morning to a fire alarm at KU’s Delta Gamma sorority house, 1015 Emery Road, and water was coursing throug the house.

Quite a bit of water already had accumulated by the time the water was turned off. Firefighters were pulling bedding, mattresses and furniture out of the house late this morning.

The break was on the third floor and had leaked down to other floors.

A representative of the sorority was on the scene, but there was no estimate of damages immediately available.