Firefighters extinguish blaze at Azrieli Center in Tel Aviv
Shoppers evacuated from shopping mall after smoke billows from Shwarma restaurant.
By Roni Singer HerutiFirefighters on Friday extinguished a fire that broke out in a restaurant in Tel Aviv's landmark Azrieli Center.
No one was hurt in the blaze but some damage was caused to property. Shoppers from the floor above the restaurant were evacuated.
Around 10 A.M., visitors to the skyscrapers' shopping mall area noticed smoke billowing from the "Big Shwarma" restaurant.
Eight fire engines and dozens of Magen David Adom ambulances rushed to the scene, fearing multiple casualties.
An initial inquiry suspects the conflagration was caused by a gas canister that exploded in the restaurant.
Situated on a major road junction, the 187 meter-high Azrieli Center's towers were the tallest buildings in the Middle East when completed in 1999.
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Tel Aviv's Azrieli Center. (Motti Kimche) |
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with the proliferation of homemade products on sale at shopping malls, with dozens of stalls, each with their own hotplates, ovens, and dozens of unguarded cables stretching all over the place, it is only a matter of time before there is a major fire disaster in one of these malls. What municipal control is there of all these ad hoc electrical installations - no fixed shop would be given a licence to operate it its electricity cables were in as a poor a state as some of these stands. So how can it be - apart from pure economic greed on the part of the mall managers, that temporary stalls can be so badly wired? with no consideration given to safety, fire risk or electrical overloading!