“All the water flowed out the door,” Pemberton added.

The water also crept under the fire door and pooled in the next door room of Olivia Jennings’06 and Sarah Kennifer’06, and seeped through the floor, creating a sort of indoor deluge for downstairs neighbors John Ames’06 and Pat Dowd’06.

Pemberton said the two “were not, like, pleased,” with damage to Dowd’s things, which they called “probably the worst [damage] out of anyone’s.”

As she spoke, a facilities employee stepped on the landing a floor below, noting, “this carpet’s very wet.”

Pemberton explained that there was “kind of like a flood coming down the stairs.”

Near the sprinkler, Pemberton rescued a soaked but partially completed plan of study form.

Monahan said that “it was totally salvageable,” according to Freshman Dean Elizabeth Studley Nathans

The commotion riled other Stoughton residents, including Proctor Jorge Elorza.

“I was laying down,” he said, “and I heard the [fire] alarm, thought it was a fire, came in, threw the door open.”

But although they suffered some damage, members of the College administration took steps to minimize the incident’s impact.

Pemberton’s face brightened as a crew came in with a new mattress to replace her now soggy one.

“The one I had before was awful,” she said. “I was, like, having back problems from the old mattress.”