California IN BRIEF : SAN JOSE : Students Suspected in Dormitory Fire

Several suspects have been identified as responsible for a fire that swept through a San Jose State dormitory, critically injuring two students and sending 19 others to hospitals, officials said. “The suspects university police are looking at are all San Jose students,” university spokesman Dick Stanley said. Stanley said the suspects in Friday’s fire, whose names he did not release, are believed to have moved a couch in front of a dormitory room and ignited it. One student, unable to breathe because of the thick smoke that filled Andrew Moulder Hall, suffered a back fracture in a jump from a third-floor window. Other students trapped by the flames leaned out windows, screaming for help as firefighters set up ladders to rescue them. Rescuers led other students down stairways to safety. More than 30 firefighters put out the blaze at the hall, which houses 178 residents.