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More than 3,000 tourists were evacuated Monday from the island where the
Statue of Liberty stands, after propane cylinders caught fire at a construction
site near the iconic landmark, officials said.
据有关官员称周一在这座标志性建筑附近的一个建筑工地发生了丙烷气罐起火事件，事件发生后超过3000名游客从自由女神像所在的岛屿上撤离。
Liberty Island, which welcomes thousands of visitors a day during the busy
summer season, was evacuated for more than two hours, before the fire department
announced at around 2pm (1800 GMT) that the blaze was under control.
夏季正值旅游盛季，自由岛每天接待成千上万的游客，据说当消防部门在下午2点(格林威治时间下午2点)宣布火势已得到控制之前的两个小时，游客在不断的疏散。
Jerry Willis, a spokesman for the National Park Service that manages
Liberty Island, confirmed to AFP that tourists were able to return to the
monument, which is accessible to the public by ferry.
管理自由岛的国家公园管理局的发言人杰瑞威利斯向法新社证实，游客们可以乘坐轮渡返回女神像。
One construction worker was slightly injured in the fire but did not
require hospital treatment, a fire department spokesman said.
消防部门发言人说，一名建筑工人在火灾中轻微受伤，但不需要住院治疗。
Liberty Island was evacuated on July 4, US Independence Day, after an
activist tried to scale the statue to protest against the Trump administration’s
separation of migrant children from their parents at the US-Mexican border.
自由岛曾在7月4日美国独立日当天关闭一次，此前一名活动人士爬上雕像，以抗议特朗普政府将美墨边境的移民子女与父母分开。
Construction is ongoing on a new Statue of Liberty Museum, which is
expected to be completed in 2019.
新自由女神像博物馆的建设正在进行中，预计将于2019年完工。 |
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发表于 2018-9-1 20:37:43