Firefighters Douse Monroe Hotel Fire in Beirut

Civil Defense firefighters battled a blaze that erupted overnight at the Monroe Hotel in DownTown Beirut as an enormous plume of smoke rose from the hotel's building.

On Saturday, the Civil Defense said in a statement via Twitter that its “firefighters were able to douse a fire that erupted at the hotel's building, evacuating all workers and residents.”

The statement added that the “rapid intervention of the fire crew prevented the fire from spreading” and that “only material damages were reported.”

The rescue teams “evacuated the building and treated some cases of suffocation due to the inhalation of thick smoke caused by the fire,” the statement concluded.

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