Pipe Burst at Kansas State Kappa House Causes $30,000 in Damage

Burst Pipe Damages Sorority House

A bursting sprinkler pipe caused about $30,000 in damage at Kansas State University's Kappa Kappa Gamma house.

Junior Kappa Anessa Burgess discovered the burst pipe when she returned to the house Saturday after spring break.

"I heard a little buzzing noise while I was putting some clothes in my closet," Burgess said. "I looked up, but it wasn't the fire alarm. All of the sudden, black water started gushing out of a pipe in the ceiling of my closet. I screamed and started trying to move things out of the room."

"There were computers, a DVD player, printers, and iPods in the room, but even worse, we lost personal items like my grandmother's yarn," she said. "She gave it to me before she died, and I was using it to make a blanket for my dad. There are things like my yarn or pictures that you can't really replace."