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Sunday, September 23, 2007
Title__*::Fire in Hobart!!

Sorry for being MIA for soo long.. been so busy that i din have time to blog at all.. when given time to rest i would have K.O le.. haha.. anyway, there is sth that i really must blog about! Yesterday, i was out in the City shopping with my frenz.. coz its actually me birthday.. so i wanna give myself a break and enjoy the day.. we were in the city at about 2+ and heard the fire alarm.. as hearing fire alram is quite a common sight in hobart, i din tot it was anything 'big'.

we were happily shopping in a shop and when we got out of the shop, i saw a fire engine outside Mayer (the biggest shop in Hobart and its just beside the shop we went into). so i tot to myself: woa.. must be something big then.. got fire engine somemore.. and i saw a group of all the workers of the shop standing at the opposite side of the street. There were at least 30 of them i think.. but then, i also tot it may be a fire drill la as i din see any smoke or fire at all..

so, we were still happily shopping in the mall and around the city.. untill about 4+, when we got out from one of the shops, i suddenly realised that most of the shopd were closed.. its quite unusual as they shouldn't be closing that 'early'.. i know for sure that some of them should close at 5.. then, we suddenly realised there is a crowd of people about 10m away from us. out of curiousity, we walked towards the crowd and realised that the area is actually covered with smoke! and the smell of smell got thicker as we approach the crowd. (the wind was blowing the smoke away from our direction so we din notice the smoke at first..)

I was shocked to see that Mayer, the biggest shop in Hobart, was covered in smoke! Scary sia! Esp the 2nd floor! thick smoke are coming out from 4 of the windows!! And the bad side of me was actually hoping to see fire instead of smoke.. but i din see any fire at all.. so i tot it shouldn't be too serious.. me and Kavita stayed there and started taking picts of the scene.. (i wanna post some picts here but my hse comp got prob uploading the picts.. will do it in sch tml if i have the time.. sorry ppl..)

and the K.po me starting listening to other people's conversation. I heard that one of the women asking the othere if she manage to take out all her stuff in time. and the women replied no! She said she ONLY MANAGED TO TAKE OUT SOME DIAMONDS from the showcase (I think) and had to rush out le.. if u all dunno, there are actually quite alot of jewellary shops around Mayer.. woa.. i think if they are damaged by fire, i think it wud be a huge loss..

and i heard from one of the firefighters that they are gonna keep a close watch on the building for 24 hrs! It was only then, then i realsied how serious it was! Oh! and I forgot to mention that by this time, there are at least 4 fire engines, 3 police cars and 1 ambulance outside the builing! and they actually sealed up the roads around it!! And the smoke got thicker and thicker and they started knocking down some of the brick walls on the 2nd floor!

today when i checked the news, i realised that the building was engulf in big fire in the evening!! Here is the LINK to the news report of it online and a picture of the fire!! the whole builing on fire is MAYER!! though its not v big as compared to singapore's shops, but its still big.. and if really wanna compare, u can imagine the whole TAKA in Orchard kenna fire.. *Touch wood*

now thinking back.. at 3+, when Mayer has already caught fire, me and mt frenz were still happily shopping in the basement of Mayer and some of the other shops there are under Mayer! scary!! and thesad thing now is that such a historic building has to be tored down due to the damage made by the fire.. =( haiz.. i am so sad that such bad thing have to happen on my birthday..

lastly, i seriously hope no one is injured in this incident..

hope everyone is doing fine.. i will try to update as often as possible.. bye for now~ =P

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