Firefighters Rescue Bound Man From Fraternity House

Firefighters rescued a man who was bound with duct tape and barricaded inside a fraternity guest room during a blaze early Saturday that caused extensive damage.

No one was injured in the fire at the Sigma Nu fraternity house at Washington State University, but 20 students had to be evacuated from the building, said Fire Department spokesman Glenn Johnson.

The fire was tentatively attributed to a candle left burning on the windowsill in a resident’s room, said fire Capt. Richard Dragoo.

Firefighters checking the house to make sure everyone had been evacuated found one man well away from the fire but with his wrists and ankles bound with duct tape and the door barricaded with furniture.

The college said it is investigating “the highly inappropriate behavior of taping the body and feet of a fraternity member and leaving him in a guest room in the house.”