A list of some deadly fires involving college students in recent U.S. history

— Aug. 29, 1976: A fire believed to have been caused by careless smoking kills five Kappa Sigma fraternity members at Baker University in Baldwin City, Kan.

— Dec. 13, 1977: Ten female students are killed in a fire at Providence College's Aquinas Hall in Rhode Island.

— Sept. 8, 1990: Three University of California, Berkeley students die and two are injured at the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity. A visitor to the house admits starting the fire while playing with a lighter.

— Oct. 12, 1994: Five students at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania die after a sofa catches fire at Beta Sigma Delta fraternity house.

— May 12, 1996: Five students die and three are injured at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill at Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. Investigators blame a cigarette tossed into a trash can.

— Jan. 19, 2000: Three students die and 62 are injured in the freshman dormitory at Seton Hall University in South Orange, N.J.

— March 19, 2000: Three students from Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania are killed in the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity house off campus.

— April 13, 2003: Five students from Ohio State University and Ohio University are killed in an off-campus apartment building in Columbus. A fire broke out after a birthday party for one of the victims had been held earlier in the evening.

— Aug. 27, 2004: A fire that started in a basement bedroom of the Alpha Tau Omega house at the University of Mississippi kills three students.

— Oct. 28, 2007: Six students from the University of South Carolina and one from Clemson University are killed in a fire at a house in Ocean Isle Beach, N.C., where they had been spending the weekend. Six South Carolina students in the house survived.

Sources: National Fire Protection Association, Campus Firewatch.