Tragic Beach House Blaze

In this image made from video by Betty Smith, fire consumes a beach house in Ocean Isle Beach, N.C. early Sunday, Oct. 28, 2007. Fire and smoke killed six students from the University of South Carolina and one from Clemson University. Six other South Carolina students in the house survived.

Fire tape surrounds the beach house that burned in Ocean Isle, N.C., Monday, Oct. 29, 2007. An early morning fire Sunday, Oct. 28, 2007 ravaged the house occupied by more than a dozen college students on Sunday, killing seven and sending several more to a hospital.

A beach house that burned in Ocean Isle, N.C., is shown Monday, Oct. 29, 2007. Six of the seven students killed when the home erupted in flames attended the University of South Carolina; the other attended Clemson University. Six other South Carolina students in the house survived.

Police cars stand in front of the beach house that burned in Ocean Isle, N.C., Monday, Oct. 29, 2007. Investigators believe the fire was accidental and that it started on a deck, Ocean Isle Beach Mayor Debbie Smith said.

Unidentified students at the Greek Village on the campus of The University of South Carolina embrace Sunday, Oct. 28, 2007, in Columbia, S.C. Six University of South Carolina students and one Clemson University student died in the early morning fire at a beach house fire in Ocean Isle Beach, N.C.

Firefighters cover the remains of a body with a tarp after finding a victim at the scene of house fire on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2007, in Ocean Isle Beach, N.C.

Firefighters continue to put out a fire in Ocean Isle Beach, N.C., Sunday, Oct. 28, 2007, where an early morning fire ravaged the beach house occupied by more than a dozen college students.

Ocean Isle Beach volunteer firefighter Corri Roberts accepts a bouquet of roses from weekend resident Nancy Lowder while Roberts guarded the perimeter set up around the house that burned and resulted in the death of seven people Sunday, Oct. 28, 2007 in Ocean Isle Beach, N.C. The flowers were meant as a memorial to the college students killed in the fire because Lowder has a college-age son.

A firefighter looks at the burned remains of a beach house in Ocean Isle Beach, N.C., Sunday, Oct. 28, 2007.

Firefighters lower a body out of a beach house that burned at Ocean Isle Beach, N.C. on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2007.

FIrefighters look over the scene of house fire on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2007, in Ocean Isle Beach, N.C.

People gather outside Oakview Elementary school in Simpsonville, S.C., on Monday, Oct. 29, 2007 for a memorial service for the seven college students who died Sunday in a beach house fire at Ocean Isle Beach, N.C.

Members of Delta Delta Delta sorority and the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity gather outside the student union at The University of South Carolina for a candlelight service Monday, Oct. 29, 2007, in Columbia, S.C. Six students from the University of South Carolina and one from Clemson University were killed Sunday in a fire at a house in Ocean Isle Beach, N.C.

Unidentified members of Delta Delta Delta sorority console each other during a candlelight service held for the victims of Sunday's Ocean Isle beach house fire, outside the student union at the University of South Carolina on Monday, Oct. 29, 2007, in Columbia, S.C. Six of the seven students killed attended the University of South Carolina; the other attended Clemson University.