News and Press Releases for October 2007

October 29, 2007

Columbia, S.C. – Governor Mark Sanford today issued the following statement on yesterday’s fire in North Carolina that claimed the lives of seven South Carolina college students:

“The deaths of these students are an incredible loss, made all the more tragic by the fact that they died at such a young age when they had their entire lives ahead of them,” Gov. Sanford said. “Their families, as well as their extended families at USC and Clemson, will be in Jenny, the four boys, and my thoughts and prayers in the coming weeks and months as they make their way through the difficult times ahead. I’d ask that every South Carolinian keep them in their thoughts and prayers as well, and to pray for the speedy recovery of those injured in the fire.”