A heavy fire occurred in Qiangui, Linsen North Road, Taipei City on the 26th. The people who escaped from death later criticized that they did not hear the alarm at all, or requested emergency shelter. The fire department later investigated the scene and found that five major fire equipment in Qiangui store, including smoke exhaust, water sprinkler, fire alarm, alarm, and broadcasting system, were all closed, and no construction protection plan was declared. The whole case pointed out that it was serious human negligence and disaster.
Taipei City Construction Management Office investigated. The incident occurred at a registered entertainment venue. The operator handled the public security declaration every year in accordance with regulations. On January 17 this year, he applied for a change of his use license and was approved by the Construction Management Office. However, he did not apply for a fire protection plan to the fire department before construction in accordance with regulations, and then the fire alarm and the sprinkler system did not start at the moment of fire alarm.
Wang Zhengxiong, captain of the Third Brigade of the Fire Department, also said that the construction protection plan of Qiangui elevator started and did not report to the Construction Management Office. Usually, after the Construction Management Office passed the review, the operator must apply to the Labor Inspection Department, the Fire Department and other units, but Qiangui did not do anything, which violated relevant building regulations.
Taipei Deputy Mayor Huang Shanshan said that the fire department applied for construction on March 30, and the fire department passed the review of the equipment, but the construction status was different from the review. It is necessary to investigate whether the alarm and broadcast were damaged or closed due to the construction. The fire department, the Civil Affairs Bureau, and the Social Bureau have been requested to set up a response team to resettle the affected people.
In response to the outside world pointing the finger at the construction unit’s loss, Jiang Mingzhi, director of the Taipei Labor Inspection Department, said that the Labor Inspection Department contacted Qiangu, and Qiangu may still be busy with emergency responses, and cannot clearly understand which business teams are working on the site construction and labor inspection status. At present, one Qiangu staff member was confirmed to be dead, and another was sent to Linkou Chang Geng to rescue the platform. As for whether Qiangu employees have any mistakes, Qiangu still waits for Qiangu to provide attendance records.
Fire Department stated that the closure of five major fire-fighting equipment will cause serious casualties and injuries. According to Article 65 of the " Fire Protection Law ", it may be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than one year and not more than seven years, and shall be fined not more than 1 million yuan (NTD, the same below) and not more than 5 million yuan.
