3 seriously hurt after fire breaks out at State Dept.
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7:37PM EST November 24. 2012 -
WASHINGTON
(AP) — Authorities say three maintenance workers were seriously injured
after a fire broke out at the State Department headquarters in
Washington.
D.C. Fire and EMS spokesman Lon Walls said the fire
broke out at around 11 a.m. Saturday in the ductwork on the 7th floor.
Workers were able to put out the fire before firefighters arrived, but
three people suffered burns.
Walls said one person suffered
life-threatening injuries and two others had serious but
non-life-threatening injuries. All three were taken to Washington
Hospital Center.
State department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said
the fire broke out during routine maintenance to a mechanical area of
the building. She said the building was briefly evacuated and then
reopened.
Something like this happening exactly as written may or may not be probable in the real world but then again it might be true. I have worked in construction as an Electrician when I was young and every job I worked on something was unpredictable completely that happened during the construction job. So, getting injured a little every day while building something that is pretty normal. IN fact, during that time I decided not to work as an electrician because my fingers were always so swollen up from working and cuts that festered from wire cuts and getting cut on metal boxes that my fingers got too big to play keyboards. I decided that I wanted to play piano, organ and synthesizers and keyboards more than I wanted to continue to do electrical work all the time. So, I stopped being an electrician during college and only did that kind of work once in a while. Even fires that start in clothing or other things can happen very easily on construction jobs. I remember taking a welding class at Palomar College and I was wearing Levi Bellbottoms in 1971 that were frayed on purpose the last half inch to the bottom. I was wearing cowboy boots because I rode my motorcycle to college that day so when my bells caught on fire from a piece of hot weld that was flying around at the frayed part I didn't feel it or know it was there until my boots got hot. When I looked down about 5 inches of my pants were on fire. So, this is the kind of thing that can happen while building too. That experience taught me to never have a BIC lighter in my pocket also in addition to not wearing frayed bells while welding. Because I realized if it caught my lighter would have exploded and burned me really bad. As it was all that happened is my boots got pretty warm and I had to put out the fire in my bells.
