Egypt: Fire breaks out in parliament.Summary: A fire broke out in Egypt's upper house of parliament on Tuesday wounding thirteen people and prompting deployment of army firefighting helicopters, officials said. A fire broke out in Egypt's upper house of parliament on Tuesday wounding thirteen people and prompting deployment of army firefighting helicopters, officials said. "Army helicopters are now trying to put out the fire which has spread," a security official told AFP (1) (AppleTalk Filing Protocol) The file sharing protocol used in an AppleTalk network. In order for non-Apple networks to access data in an AppleShare server, their protocols must translate into the AFP language. See file sharing protocol. . The fire, which broke out on the second floor of the building, spread to the third floor causing severe damage to a parliamentary archive, the official added. "Four emergency service staff were taken to a nearby hospital after suffering smoke-related injuries, and nine people who were in the building also suffered from smoke inhalation Smoke Inhalation Definition Smoke inhalation is breathing in the harmful gases, vapors, and particulate matter contained in smoke. Description Smoke inhalation typically occurs in victims or firefighters caught in structural fires. ," health ministry spokesman Abdel Rahman Shahine told state television. "The injuries are not critical and there are no reports of deaths so far," he conveyed. Shahine said that officials were working to protect the health ministry's central laboratories which are across the street. "The problem is that the building is built of wood, and this helped the fire to spread. Everyone is working to bring the situation under control," Shura Council
The Shura Council (Arabic: Majilis Al-Shura مجلس الشورى) is the upper house of Egyptian bicameral Parliament. speaker Safwat al-Sherif told state television. Parliament speaker Fathi Surur said the cause of the blaze remained unclear. "We still don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. what caused the fire. The technical teams will have to come and survey that," he told the television. Evacuated employees were quoted as saying by the AP authorities told them they had ruled out terrorism, and that an electrical short-circuit had likely sparked the fire. All roads All Roads is a 2001 interactive fiction game by Jon Ingold that placed first at the 2001 Interactive Fiction Competition. It also won the XYZZY Awards for Best Game, Best Setting and Best Story and was nominated for Best Individual Puzzle and Best Writing. in the area have been closed off, allowing access only to emergency services emergency services Emergency care '…services …necessary to prevent death or serious impairment of health and, because of the danger to life or health, require the use of the most accessible hospital available and equipped to furnish those services' and authorities. A[umlaut umlaut (  m`lout) [Ger.,=transformed sound], in inflection, variation of vowels of the type of English man to men. ] 2008 Al Bawaba (www.albawaba.com)
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