Fire empties Senate office building

[seafan]

Source: The Ottawa Recorder

WASHINGTON - The Senate‘s Hart office building was evacuated briefly Wednesday after a fire alarm went off and boxes at the bottom of a stairwell were found to be on fire.

Allan Etter, a spokesman for the District of Columbia Fire Deparment, said the fire was extinguished and there were no injuries. Workers would be allowed back into the building once the smoke cleared, Etter said.

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Very short article.

Guess it's time to vacuum up those computers again...

[rinsd]

1. How many fires have been started at the Hart bldg this year? 3?

:shrug:

[truthisfreedom]

2. No doubt. The administration needs to keep their extortion records up to date.

Can't let those Senators start thinking they're free of "the Man."

[seafan]

3. Apparently, there was another set of suspicious fires inside Senate bldgs on October 3

Suspicious fires in the Senate, October 3, 2007

Four fires were extinguished today inside two Senate office buildings, but no evacuations or arrests were made.

The fires, which were all called “suspicious in nature,” occurred inside trash cans in four different women’s bathrooms, said Capitol Police Sgt. Kimberly Schneider. No one was injured.

Three fires were in Dirksen Senate Office Building while another took place in Hart Senate Office Building between about 10:45 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. Both are located near the U.S. Capitol.

The police department put out the first three fires within a matter of minutes. The fire department assisted with the last one because it “generated more smoke than the others,” Schneider said.

The fires are under investigation, she said.

Fires set in U.S. Senate office buildings

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Officials said fires set in two U.S. Senate office buildings Wednesday probably were meant to be inconvenient, not hurt people.

Four fires set in the Dirksen and Hart office buildings were put out quickly, CNN reported. Three in the Hart office building were extinguished by capitol police, while the fire department was called to put out the Dirksen building fire because the area was smoky.

Neither building was evacuated and no one was injured.

An official told CNN the fires were being investigating but investigators said they had no leads about who started the fires or why they were set. The official said it appeared the fires were meant to be a nuisance, rather than something more foul.

[DCKit]

6. Four different women's restrooms suspicious???? Spontaneously coumbustible feminine products???? nt

[shain from kane]

4. Islamofascist firebugs have moved to East Coast. n/t

[iconoclastic cat]

5. I wonder if the "firefighters" installed any little tiny microphones on the way out. nt

[tom_paine]

8. All that and more, I would guess, knowing what kind of Bushcriminal tyrants we are dealing with

[Castleman]

7. and the Reichstag has another fire?

Have they arrested a Democrat as the arsonist?