Big Fire in Nicosia - Roads are Unpassable

TourGuide


Joined: 20/05/2009
Posts: 735

Message Posted:
26/05/2010 20:06

Just Back from Nicosia. If anyone is going to Larnaca Airport, i advise them to use the Pile border as their is a big fire at The China Bazaar branch in Nicosia and the Roads are Unpassable.

henrik



Joined: 01/10/2009
Posts: 314

Message Posted:
26/05/2010 20:15

is the china bazaar burning or only the dry fields?

if its the fields fire will pass quick..

henrik



Joined: 01/10/2009
Posts: 314

Message Posted:
26/05/2010 20:19

ha, just got the news.. the "plastic bazaar" is burning... a result of shopping centers without proper fire fighting systems.. what a shame..

gooligan


Joined: 30/01/2007
Posts: 1591

Message Posted:
26/05/2010 20:22

No laughing matter Henrik,there is a petrol station not far away.Hope everyone is safe.

susief


Joined: 06/11/2008
Posts: 529

Message Posted:
26/05/2010 21:29

I've just seen some footage of the firefighters trying to put out the blaze wearing no protective jackets only short-sleeve t-shirts!!!!!

daisy dukes


Joined: 06/09/2008
Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
26/05/2010 22:07

gooligan, i really don't think Henrik was laughing, it was simply an expression..'ha'! Eureka.....it's a common word here for expressing understanding.





DD

henrik



Joined: 01/10/2009
Posts: 314

Message Posted:
26/05/2010 23:26

thanks daisy! but I think its not realy hard to understand when I read my text again.. its not a "ha ha" its a "ha," like, "I got it", from turkish cypriot, and even at the end I wrote, "what a shame" ... so there is nothing funny about. I for myself had the experience to face 3 major fires (not the yearly small ones) in TRNC, I was captured in my house at my own in the year 1995.. just to fight the flames with buckets of water. I know what it means to fight fire..

anyone having liks to pictures?

HNComputers


Joined: 23/08/2009
Posts: 472

Message Posted:
27/05/2010 10:19

Oh no, is everyone ok? Anyone found out how the fire started?

Sazna


Joined: 12/09/2009
Posts: 1177

Message Posted:
28/05/2010 06:50

Apparently its due to the huge Telsim antenna on the roof which sent an electrical charge down to the basement and that caused the fire but because the Telsim antenna were put up after they had insured the place so they are not able to claim. So i have been told, the story could change by next week, don't think any one was hurt.