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Florence, fire alert at Uffizi museum: Gallery closed few hours
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The Uffizi GalleryLightening hit fire control system. No damage to masterpieces, no people injured
1 MINUTI DI LETTURA
FLORENCE. Fire alert early this morning in Florence, Tuscany (Italy), at Uffizi museum, house of world masterpieces as The Venere by Botticelli, The Spring by Botticelli as well, the Doni Tondo painting by Michelangelo. A lighting hit the fire system control unit and the system activated. Suddenly the firefighters arrived, alerted for a beginning fire by the museum employees.
When the firefighters arrived at the museum, the saw something similar to smoke coming out from the Uffizi Gallery. Actually it was the steam of the fire extinguishing powder from the fire system.
The alarm started at 7.40 am. At the very beginning, the firefighter thought a mouse could have gnawed a cable on the fire system to make the system started. Then they figured out the cause of the accident was the lighting on the system control.
The museum reopened before 10 am. No damage to Uffizi Gallery nor masterpieces was ascertained.
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