{"id":202924,"date":"2025-07-21T08:56:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T06:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-fire-at-cairo-telecom-hub-kills-4-disrupts-internet-phones-and-air-traffic\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T08:56:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T06:56:51","slug":"egypt-fire-at-cairo-telecom-hub-kills-4-disrupts-internet-phones-and-air-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-fire-at-cairo-telecom-hub-kills-4-disrupts-internet-phones-and-air-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Fire At Cairo Telecom Hub Kills 4, Disrupts Internet, Phones, and Air Traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\"><em>Cairo, Egypt &#8211;<\/em> A massive fire broke out Monday in the heart of Cairo at a key telecommunications hub, leaving four employees dead, over two dozen injured, and causing widespread disruption to internet and phone services across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The blaze, which started in one of the technical halls of the 10-story Telecom Egypt building, quickly spread due to its intensity. The building, located in downtown Cairo, serves as a central node in Egypt&#8217;s communication infrastructure.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The fire broke out on&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507090052.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cairo, Egypt &#8211; A massive fire broke out Monday in the heart of Cairo at a key telecommunications hub, leaving four employees dead, over two dozen injured, and causing widespread disruption to internet and phone services across the country. The blaze, which started in one of the technical halls of the 10-story Telecom Egypt building, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":202925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,7832,341,11991,4697,415,6600,7448,7162,7500,257,17116,254,13292,9527],"class_list":["post-202924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-air","tag-cairo","tag-disrupts","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-fire","tag-hub","tag-internet","tag-kills","tag-news","tag-phones","tag-south-africa-today","tag-telecom","tag-traffic"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}