Wednesday 11 February 2009

Opps! Sorry!

I mentioned about this fire in a previous blog, well a Chinese television station has apologised after unauthorised fireworks it was using accidentally set fire to the hotel, 'CCTV hired staff from a fireworks company to ignite several hundred large festive firecrackers' in an open space outside the near-completed Mandarin Oriental Hotel, part of the CCTV tower complex, Xinhua said, quoting a fire brigade spokesman,
'Owners of the property ignored policeman's warnings that such fireworks were not allowed,' spokesman Luo Yuan was quoted as saying, today CCTV apologised for the tragedy, saying it was deeply grieved 'for the severe damage the fire caused to the country's property.' the whole complex cost 5 billion yuan ($731 million), according to Xinhua, it is a good job flame retardant building materials were used or it really would have looked burnt!

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