MIT Grad Student Seriously Injured In Dormitory Fire

An MIT graduate student was critically injured when a fire broke out Tuesday morning on the nineteenth floor of MIT's Tang Residence Hall.

Renato Ribeiro was on the danger list yesterday at Mass. General Hospital with second and third degree burns on much of his body and considerable respiratory damage.

Two MIT employees were also hospitalized with less serious injuries in the one-alarm fire.

Most of the 45 students who were in the building when the fire broke out were evacuated safely by Cambridge firemen.

The cause of the fire is as yet unknown and is under investigation by MIT the state fire marshall and the Cambridge Fire Department.

The firemen contained the fire on the nineteenth floor of the 24-story building.

The two year old building received little damage.