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Fraternity To Reopen After Fire Six Years Ago

A fraternity house at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln is set to reopen after a deadly fire nearly six years ago.

The Lincoln Journal Star  says Phi Kappa Tau will start anew on Saturday when it regains its national standing and becomes an official Wesleyan fraternity with 34 members.

Nineteen-year-old Ryan Stewart, of Ord, died in the November 2006 fire that gutted the house. The fraternity was suspended from the national chapter and the university for at least four years.

Investigators determined the fire started in Stewart’s room, but couldn’t figure out the cause due to the damage.

The university has since installed sprinklers in housing for all 1,100 of its students, including its seven Greek houses. That effort started after the fire and finished this summer.

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