Looking Back On A Tragedy: 25 Years After The Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity Fire
Posted May 26, 2021
Ben Eubanks, a 21-year old rising senior from New Bern, was asleep with his girlfriend in his room at the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house that morning. "I remember it vividly," he says, a quarter-century later. "I can remember waking up, and, you know, the room is just completely full of smoke. I was not even able to really see my hand in front of my face."
(WUNC)
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