Schools have never been immune to fire tragedy. Since January 2000, 75 people have died in fires in student housing, according to the Center for Campus Fire Safety, and nearly 30 percent of those deaths occurred in August and September. NFPA statistics show that an average of 1,800 fires occur in dormitories and Greek housing each year, which means that firefighters respond to residential fires on U.S. college campuses five times a day.