"Some didn't answer their doors, so we're going door-by-door with a key," said Kevin P. Bryant, an HUPD sergeant on the scene.
With book bags hanging from their shoulders, students walked to Quincy House dining hall, which had been opened for evacuees.
Some of them wore only t-shirts and shorts in the chilly rain.
David Fithian, the senior tutor of Adams, arrived at Quincy House with his dog Buster in tow.
"But we left our cats. That's the big problem," said Michael Rodriguez, Fithian's partner.
HUPD spokesperson Peggy A. McNamara said she estimated that between 350 and 400 students and staff were asked to leave their rooms.
The CFD, which had one engine, one ladder truck and its two rescue companies on the scene, began to take gas readings from buildings along Plympton Street.
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