Eisenhower building near White House evacuated

[rainbow4321]

Nice...wonder what the previous occupants shoved up the chimney.


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/01/25/national/a114105S77.DTL&tsp=1

Washington fire officials say the Eisenhower Executive Office Building near the White House was evacuated briefly after smoke from a fireplace clouded one of the floors.

(snip)

Fire spokesman Alan Etter says firefighters extinguished a fire in a fireplace on the second floor. They believe an obstruction in a chimney caused light smoke to build up on the fourth floor. No damage was reported.

The Secret Service evacuated the building for about 30 minutes as a precaution. There were a few people inside the building, which houses White House staff.

[NOW tense]

1. Please let it be documents that explain everything.

[rainbow4321]

2. Either that or the building code is as "updated" as the IT

Or it's someone from the previous admin sneaking their way back into the building a la Santa Clause.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. Wasn't this the place that had a fire a few months back?

seems to me it had to do with Cheney in some way.

[rainbow4321]

4. Yep..electrical fire

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17404200

[ThomWV]

5. A federal office with a functioning fireplace, now nice.

I wonder which job series it is that finds itself delivering the firewood, or more to the point I wonder what the contract for firewood delivery looks like.

[ColbertWatcher]

6. Doesn't this building have a history of fire/smoke-related evacuations?

At least when Dumbass was occupying?

I could have sworn there was another story about the fireplaces at the Eisenhower Building.

[DCKit]

7. Uncle Dick set a trap for Santa.

This is just the first time they've used the fireplace since Xmas.

[hootinholler]

8. Wasn't that a West Wing episode?

:shrug:

-Hoot