Fire crews battle the flames as a blaze engulfs a telecom company building in Cairo

(7 Jul 2025)
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Cairo, Egypt – 7 July 2025
1. Various of firefighters on cranes fighting blaze, smoke rising from main telecom company building in downtown Cairo
2. Fire trucks at scene, firefighters on top of truck extinguishing fire
3. Tilt up from firefighter on top of fire truck extinguishing flames to building on fire
4. Various of firefighters on cranes extinguishing fire, smoke rising
5. Various of fire trucks at scene, smoke rising, people gathering
6. Mid of smoke rising from building
7. Injured person on stretcher being pushed by medics into ambulance ++NIGHT SHOT++
8. Various of ambulances and emergency workers at scene
9. Various of firefighters extinguishing fire
STORYLINE:
A fire engulfed the main telecom company building in downtown Cairo on Monday, injuring at least 14 people and prompting a temporary outage of internet and mobile phone services, officials said.

The 14 injured people were taken to nearby hospitals, the Health Ministry said in a statement.

The fire started on the seventh floor of a landmark 10-story Telecom Egypt building in the Ramses area of Cairo, the governor’s office said in a statement.

Ambulances and firetrucks were on site as plumes of dark smoke rose in downtown Cairo.

Firefighters put up ladders as firetrucks spewed water to contain the blaze, while security officials cordoned off the area.

The fire broke in an equipment room of Telecom Egypt and led to a temporary disruption of telecom services, the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority said in a statement.

Telecom services were expected to be restored within hours, the authority said. Online payment services were also disrupted.

The fire took place a few kilometers (miles) from where a deadly blaze at a train station in 2019 killed at least 25 people and injured at least 45 others after a collision caused a huge explosion.

AP video shot by: Ahmed Hatem

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