No casualties in Wal-Mart fire

 DALIAN, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- A fire that ripped through a Wal-Mart outlet¹ in Dalian was put out Wednesday morning, local authorities said.

No casualties were reported in the fire that broke out at 9 a.m. on the fifth floor of the outlet in the port city in northeast China's Liaoning Province. The fire was extinguished at around 11 a.m., a spokesman with the city's emergency response office said.

Witnesses told Xinhua that the warehouse² of the outlet caught fire, giving off heavy smoke.

There were no customers as the outlet was not open when the fire broke out. Six people working inside were rescued.

The cause of the fire is being investigated.

1 outlet   

n.出口/路；销路；批发商店；通风口；发泄

参考例句：

• The outlet of a water pipe was blocked.水管的出水口堵住了。
• Running is a good outlet for his energy.跑步是他发泄过剩精力的好方法。

2 warehouse   

n.仓库；vt.存入仓库

参考例句：

• We freighted the goods to the warehouse by truck.我们用卡车把货物运到仓库。
• The manager wants to clear off the old stocks in the warehouse.经理想把仓库里积压的存货处理掉。