Viva’s office on fire
I got an email from someone telling me that Viva’s office on the 18th floor of the Olympia building was on fire. I brushed it away as a rumor and decided to ask a friend of mine who works at Viva if their office was really on fire. Turns out its true and they had to evacuate the building because of it. I don’t have any pictures but if I get any will post them.
Update: Just got one picture which I added to the post above.
Update2: According to a source at Olympia, it was a small fire started by an electric short. Both buildings were evacuated for 15 minutes.
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Jul 15, 2009
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18 Comments, add your own...
1. kha | July 15th, 2009 at 11:41 am
Zain revenging viva’s clever fixed prices campaign perhaps?
2. cajie | July 15th, 2009 at 11:59 am
Hope it was nothing serious.
3. Sn3a | July 15th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
enshallah mafee injuries
4. steve_leb | July 15th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
This building is damned.. Remember when the top floors went on fire during the construction few month ago.. it was in the papers..
5. mishal | July 15th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
The fire started at the Executive floor!
6. Sami | July 15th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
I love right across from it did not see or hear anything
7. Musty | July 15th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
maybe it was an emergency drill??
8. Fereej | July 15th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
opaaaaaaaaaaah
9. hilaliya | July 15th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
“The fire started at the Executive floor!”
Who was William Holden in this mess and who was the Richard Chamberlain type cutting electrical costs to launch the building?
I just hope a Steve McQueen type saved the day.
10. sabah | July 15th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
I was there on the 19th floor. The alarms were ringing intermittently for a while (5 minutes or so) and most of us were brushing it off and trying to work (stupidly enough). Then one of the guys came from another floor and asked us to get the hell out. That was one tiring climb down 19 floors of stairs and there was a lot of smoke too.
It seems it was caused by a cigarette on the 9th floor (or the 15th, still hearing different things), but thankfully there seems to have been no injuries. I managed to to take a couple of pics before going off. Now I’m back on the 19th and things seem to be OK.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sabahkamal/tags/viva/
11. PeevishGuy | July 15th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
pour on water!!
12. CurlySue | July 15th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
So do you stick the heat inside in the fire or go outside to the inferno that is mid day summer Kuwait? Tough decision, equally horrific……………
13. Whatever | July 15th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
Was Bruno there? NOT!
14. AZz | July 15th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
where is the location of the olympia building?
15. salah | July 15th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
are you ma3aya on zis time??
16. Moe80s | July 15th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
hmmm maybe it was watania.. well we all know zain replied to the campaign made by viva last week but watania never did :P naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah propably some smart ass was cleaning a sceen with water or something like that… it always happen!!
17. Dratsab | July 16th, 2009 at 8:49 am
i wish it burnt down
the way they keep extracting money from the users…. without the users using the phone calling or internet…..
or for that matter subscribe to something and be charged extra for it !!!
this company stinks
18. Sami | July 16th, 2009 at 11:23 am
AZz no 14. The location of the Olympia building, is on the Gulf Road
Share3 El Khaleej, right across from the aquarium or the scientific center
you cant miss it they are two long towers…
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