81.   Only newspapers, hospitals and fire services had been exempted from the strike.

82.   Parts of neighbouring Savoie were also affected, prompting hundreds of telephone calls from worried residents, fire services said.

83.   Ratwatte, who is also the junior defence minister, said the Colombo fire service will now come under the fire fighting units of the air force.

84.   Seven people were injured and two reported missing in the northeastern Spanish city of Barcelona after a five-storey building partially collapsed, the fire service said.

85.   The army, which is under the authority of the Police Commissioner, is responsible for maintaining law and order and coordinating fire services and disaster relief.

86.   The Catalan fire service said residents were not threatened although some homes although some homes were evacuated as a precaution.

87.   The fire service rapidly extinguished the blaze, after a metro carriage burst into flames.

88.   The fire service Thursday rapidly extinguished the blaze, after a metro carriage burst into flames.

89.   The head of the Sarajevo fire service, Mesud Jusufovic, told AFP he had no confidence in IFOR promises to protect his fire crews in Ilidza.

90.   The fire services, army and forest rangers fought the fire with the help of planes.