"Rescue workers had to use gas masks to get up to the top floors where the smell was coming from," rescue services spokesman Mika Maekelae said, saying the smokeless odour was akin to pepper spray.
The first rescue worker who entered the building had a bad coughing fit and trouble breathing, he added. Inside the apartment, rescue workers found an oven full of burnt whole chillies, which the occupant had forgotten.
The occupant and her child escaped the fumes onto their balcony, and did not need medical attention. The four people taken to the hospital were not seriously injured by the chilli fumes, according to the rescue services.
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Well, here I am, suddenly and without any warning all irritated and stuff. It's not your fault, Kevin, nor the fault of the people at ABC News. It's the fault of the person who wrote the original AFP piece in English. And even their ignorance might be excused.
Today's lesson: The Finnish letter ä is not interchangeable with ae. Unlike in German it's not an umlaut, the Finnish ä is a stand-alone phoneme equal to any other vowel. While we got our alphabet from the Swedish, our ä (or it's dots) has nothing to do with the letter e.
So if you are for some reason unable to write a Finnish name with all the proper dots in place, just leave them out all together. Mäkelä thus becomes Makela, not Maekelae. Much neater and more understandable. Not to mention more correct.
News agencies around the world, take note.
I apologise sincerely! :)
No problem. :-D This is just a pet peeve of mine, one that's source is never likely to go away, I'm sorry to say. But really, dear foreigners, do you honestly think it's necessary to ADD extra vowels to Finnish names?
Have you ever thought that it might depends on the keyboard? I use a standard 26-letters English keyboard. Should I use a 44-letters Hungarian keyboard if I write something about Hungary?
Dear Anonymous, you don't have the letter 'a' in your standard 26-letters English keyboard? Perhaps you should read the third paragraph of my original comment again.
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