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Faulty Light Causes Short in White House

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Associated Press

Three firetrucks rushed to the White House on Friday to investigate a smell that turned out to be coming from a faulty light fixture near First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton’s West Wing office. There was no fire.

“A light fixture shorted out and there was a strong odor,” White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers said. “Nothing has burned at all.”

An aide to domestic policy adviser Carol Rasco contacted the Fire Department after smelling something outside her office, which is down the hall from the First Lady’s.

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“Everything’s fine, everything’s under control, no one was evacuated,” Myers said. “There was absolutely no threat, no danger of a fire.”

Firefighters were replacing the faulty fixture, she said.

The President was meeting with foreign leaders in the residential quarters of the White House at the time, she said, but the meeting was not disrupted.

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