JEDDAH, 27 May 2007 — A number of teachers managed to extinguish a fire that broke out at the teachers training college in the city’s Al-Sharafia district yesterday morning. Fire officials blamed a short circuit caused by an overload on an electric extension wire.
Abdullah Al-Amri, spokesman for the Civil Defense in the Makkah region, praised the teachers for taking the initiative to tackle the fire. He said that one of the teachers noticed smoke coming from an administration office in the college and telephoned the Civil Defense.
Al-Amri said that the teachers’ reaction was highly professional and that they were careful not to inform students about the fire to avoid them panicking. A team of firefighters from the Civil Defense arrived at the scene, but did not need to interfere as the teachers had managed to put the fire out.
The Civil Defense also revealed details about a four year old child, who drowned inside a swimming pool at his family’s rest house in the north of Jeddah. The boy had sneaked into the pool unattended and died on his way to hospital.
