Abstract
On Mother's Day/Graduation Day of 1996 a fire in a fraternity house killed five college juniors and injured three other undergraduate students. The tragedy attracted national attention and led to the creation of the 2001 College Fire Prevention Act. By 2004 however, the tragedy was no longer a recent memory to current fraternity members and they were cited by the local fire department for covering a smoke detector in their fraternity house. Consequently, the University Honor System contacted the Burn Center and requested that fraternity members tour the center as part of their correction for honor code violations related to blocking the smoke detector system. We used this incident to renew interest and re-emphasize the importance of burn safety to college students in the University system. We developed a unique collaborative intervention with our Burn Center, the Greek system, the local fire department, and our burn survivor community. We obtained approval to implement the intervention from the University Honor System and then met with fraternity members.
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