But the CFD takes any set fire seriously, said Michael Morrissey, the head of the CFD's Fire Investigation Unit (FIU).
"If we find an intentional fire, we prosecute," Morrissey said.
The fire aside, unfounded calls for service have angered the CFD and the city in recent months.
While Cambridge police and fire units responded to the Lampoon only 10 times in all of 1999, they have responded 13 times to the building in the first five months of this year, Cambridge records show.
A total of six calls--three noise complaints and three fire alarms--have come in the last two weeks alone.
The night of the fire, records show the Cambridge Police Department responded to quell a noise complaint at 7:26 a.m.--only four hours after CFD investigated the fire alarm and found the burnt newspaper. At that time, CFD had asked the party be stopped.
Since the Lampoon's membership is comprised of Harvard students, the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) has been working with the CFD to resolve the matter.
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