Victims
- Lauren Astrid Mahon, 18 University of South Carolina
- William Robert Rhea, 18 USC
- Cassidy Fae Pendley, 18 USC
- Alison Christine Walden, 19 USC
- Justin Michael Anderson, 19 USC
- Travis Lane Cale, 20 USC
- Emily Lauren Yelton, 19 Clemson University
Six of the thirteen students were able to escape the house with minor injuries. Andrew Rhea, 19, escaped the house but lost his younger brother William in the fire. Another survivor, Tripp Wylie, a 20-year-old University of South Carolina sophomore, said he jumped out of a third-story window into a canal to escape the flames but was unable to get back in to help his friends. Wylie was the only student on the upper level of the house to escape.
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