Leverett Alarm

Seven Cambridge Fire Department vehicles rushed to McKinlock Hall at Leverett House yesterday at 1:46 a.m. only to return to the station after determining the alarm was false.

Mario Aliquo, Cambridge Fire Alarm Dispatcher, said yesterday that the alarm was due to "a short circuit, a faulty wire--it could be any one of a million things."

Twenty minutes after the fire apparatus left the scene, another alarm sounded in the same building and the trucks returned, again in vain.

Leverett residents who had fled the building during the first alarm reportedly ignored the second alarm. "We give Harvard the best of care," Aliquo said.