How do you feel about the fire that burned most of the Shoura Building ?

Question

most of the roofs of the Shoura building have been destroyed .

this will take time and lots of money to be repaired .

Khudewi Ismail built this structure .

he also built the old Opera House .

both structures were not saved .

what are your feelings when you saw /see this fire and its aftermath ?

Answer 1

It's regrettable , but really what made me sad not the accident itself .....

the reason could be electrical wiring fault or even a cigarette .

a few weeks ago a fire erupted even at one of the white house's offices , it happens .

but what didn't happen there & made the things worse here is that fire fighting took 16 hours ..omg 16 hours !!

i think the forest fire fighting in the amazon doesn't take all these long hours..

@ beautiful mind  :

man !!  i was watching the news on the egyptian tv . the correspondent was saying "the fire has been fully extinguished " and in the same time , flames were coming through the windows in his background !!

http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/0...

anyways , i agree about your explanation .

and you are absolutely right about the forest part , I was just sarcasting .

Answer 2

I am very upset because they will let people pay for it.

I heard they are making a friendly football game and the income will be used to rebuild the parliament !!!

Why doesn't Ahmad Ezz donate 15 minutes of his income to rebuild it for example?

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Answer 3

Very sad.. I almost cried when I saw the fire live on TV.. how could  they let it get this far? and whats with the helicopters putting out the fire with buckets?! WTF?! are we this poor and unadvanced?!

Answer 4

It is very sad when anything historical in Egypt is damaged.... :(\

and btw, the Egyptian ruler's title during the 19th century (khedewi) is in English; KHEDIVE....just thought I'd clear that up

cheers,

Answer 5

its sad to see such old building been destroyed only was hoping that all shoura members plus people's assembly members were inside, among with all the government ministers and their big boss were all inside and doors were locked, so we get rid from all of them.

Answer 6

Deeply saddend that one of the most beautiful old buildings in downtown Cairo has been lost to those who never had the chance to see it in it's original glory.  

Answer 7

3mar ya masr 3amar,wla ayam el est3maar

Answer 8

Some documents had to be destroyed & a fire accident was the best solution

Answer 9

the bad thing that the fire didn't start while the session occurs, if it would do that it will finish all dirty watany people

Answer 10

I feel lack of identity. Historical buildings are essential part of our identity.

it indicates negligence in matter of engineering dis-efficiency of the building and so the engineering committee is responsible, or the re-habilitation contractors. how such an important building is not provided with a self-fire-sprinklers. or smoke detectors.

I feel weak establishment of state system. as one of the 2nd most important building like that, where the president goes to on a schedule not visits, i feel that if the state cant protect such important building it means there is a real issue of weakness that should be indicated and should be treated well. not just an issue of Negligence. it is so much bigger. if the state couldn't protect such important structure, so no wonder it cant protect other less important ones.

by the way: this building has to (MUST) be destroyed completely and built again from scratch. such major structural deteriorations can not be repaired. and if it is done, psychologically speaking no one will approach it again..

the only solution in my mind: is to keep the outline facade, and re-build the whole inside structure from the inside again

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@last phoroah: wild forest fires takes weeks to eleminate them. i think in newspapers it says 7 hours. it is still high. but i think thats because engineering mistakes related to street networks (in the city and in the parliement campus it self) so it was hard to take advantage of 70 firefighting cars all at once, the linefront with fire could be so limited. and thats why it took so long (i think).

Answer 11

There are ironic pictures:

- This building is being treated as a humans in terms of remembering his/her value only after his/her death.

- There were no fire fighting plan for such important building. That is to say we areoccurs behind in everything although the progress we claim.

Personally, I am shocked and the petty is that I should live with it as no one is ready to express "It is time to become mature at all levels as Enough is Enough"

Answer 12

the opera house was built again for better

but the question is there any connection?

or even more is there a joint factor between the three major fires

opra shura and cairo fire

Answer 13

Am sad coz it belongs to Khudewi Ismail

I love this guy.

Answer 14

Sad indeed!

Answer 15

bad.

but only for one reason.

that it will be rebuilt through sucking of Egyptians' blood..i don't give a d**n about the structure that the khudevi built.

qaddar Allah wa ma sha' fa'al

Answer 16

bey2olo mass , msh 3aref ba2a but it's horrible u know :(

Answer 17

I didnt feel a thing..i was numb as always