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1 posted on 04/14/2005 8:54:26 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Maybe it was Mrs o kerrys frog


2 posted on 04/14/2005 8:58:26 PM PDT by al baby (Dick Trickle is not just a medical condition)
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To: BurbankKarl; lainie; Lijahsbubbe; Grzegorz 246

Ping.


3 posted on 04/14/2005 8:59:03 PM PDT by bd476
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Yep. Bush's fault. Didn't you know the French outlawed hotel fires?


4 posted on 04/14/2005 8:59:40 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Glad to see it wasn't the Paris Hilton. I will be in the Paris Hilton in June (honest!).


6 posted on 04/14/2005 9:01:25 PM PDT by Clemenza (Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms: The Other Holy Trinity)
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BBC News World Edition

4-15-2005


The cause of the blaze is still unclear

Fatal blaze guts Parisian hotel


The cause of the blaze is still unclear

At least 13 people have died and about 50 people have been injured in a fire at a hotel in central Paris, a fire service spokesman said.

At least 10 of the wounded were in a serious condition after the blaze in the city's central 9th arrondissement.

The fire, which broke out at about 0200 (0000 GMT), gutted the six-storey Paris-Opera hotel.

Some of the guests leapt from windows to escape the flames, the AFP news agency reported.

Makeshift morgue

"The toll is provisional because we fear we might find more victims on the upper floors," fire service spokesman Laurent Vibert told the Reuters news agency.

"It was a serious fire. You don't often see such fires in Paris. There was only one staircase and the fire broke out on the lower floors. There was no explosion," he said.

Mr Vibert told the AFP news agency that 76 people had been living in the 32-room hotel on rue de Provence.

Witnesses said they were mostly families of African origin.

An emergency medical centre and a makeshift morgue were set up in the nearby Galeries Lafayette department store.

Dozens of fire trucks and 10 ambulances were at the scene. The flames were extinguished by 0330 (0130 GMT).

Interior minister Dominique de Villepin has visited the scene, his office said.

Fatal blaze guts Parisian hotel
10 posted on 04/14/2005 9:07:06 PM PDT by bd476
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

That's miserable. God bless them.


12 posted on 04/14/2005 9:10:18 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Prayers for the victims and their families.


16 posted on 04/14/2005 9:24:25 PM PDT by Red Sea Swimmer (Tisha5765Bav)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Just In Case: sarcasm


19 posted on 04/14/2005 9:55:38 PM PDT by justanotherguyisalreadytaken?
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Prayers from me too.


22 posted on 04/14/2005 11:04:12 PM PDT by Paul_Denton (Get the UN out of the US and US out of the UN!)
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To: Velveeta; Calpernia

Ping


23 posted on 04/15/2005 1:01:14 AM PDT by nw_arizona_granny (Airspeed, altitude, or brains. Two are required to successfully complete a flight.)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
UPDATE

PARIS (AP) - People screamed to be rescued from flames - some even jumped from windows - as a fire roared through a Paris hotel early Friday used by the government to house needy African families. At least 20 people were killed, half of them children, officials said.

More than 50 people were injured, 11 seriously. The fire was thought to have started in a first-floor breakfast room of the one-star Paris Opera hotel in the capital's 9th district, a popular tourist area, fire officials said.

Eight hours later, rescue workers were still pulling bodies from inside of the scorched building.

Many guests were African. Paris City Hall had rented rooms in the six-story hotel to temporarily house nine people from Africa, and state services housed 65 others without means, including some seeking asylum.

The fire broke out after 2 a.m., when guests would have been sleeping. It spread quickly and caused panic, he said.

"One can imagine young children, parents without their clothes, in the middle of the night, fast asleep, smoke, cries, tears," he said.

French President Jacques Chirac labeled the fire one of Paris'"most painful catastrophes."

The injured came from France, the United States, Portugal, Senegal, Tunisia, Ukraine and Ivory Coast, Paris police said. Vibert said a Canadian also was lightly injured. The nationalities of the dead were not given.

At least one person sought refuge on the burning roof, screaming and waving frantically as flames poured from windows and fire officers scrambled up ladders. Two others yelled for help from the window of a burning room. A fire officer cradled an infant in his arms as he carried him to safety amid jets of water from fire hoses.

Fire officials said some people jumped out of windows to escape flames and choking smoke.

Chakib San, who lives in an adjacent building, said he was awakened by cries of "Fire! Fire!" He said he saw three people jump from lower stories, including a woman and a child who lay motionless after hitting the ground.

"They were on the ground. They weren't moving," he said.

"Everyone was screaming," he added. "There were bodies in the road."

The injured were treated and dead bodies temporarily stored in the Galeries Lafayette, one of Paris' busiest and most famous department stores.

24 posted on 04/15/2005 5:19:26 AM PDT by Cagey
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"Paris City Hall had rented rooms in the 6-story hotel to temporarily house needy African families. State Services housed 65 others without means, including some seeking asylum."

Leni

25 posted on 04/15/2005 5:22:51 AM PDT by MinuteGal ("The Marines keep coming. We are shooting, but the Marines won't stop !" (Fallujah Terrorists)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

A few bits on info I saw on CBC. Many families living there were from Africa waiting to get assigned public housing. The fire was most likely caused by one of these families illegally cooking in their room. There was no fire escape to the roof and the only exit was down the staircase. The staircase was made of wood and assisted in accelerating the fire.


29 posted on 04/15/2005 5:00:18 PM PDT by Andy from Beaverton (I only vote Republican to stop the Democrats)
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