Kaohsiung Fire Scene (Photo source: Mainland CCTV)
[Jiangsu News Network Comprehensive News] 46 people have died, 41 people were injured, and 86 people have been rescued.
Comprehensive Taipei's "Dongsen News Cloud" and mainland CCTV reports that Kaohsiung Fire Department Director Li Qingxiu said at the scene at 2 pm on the 14th that the building has been searched and rescued from the 7th to 11th floor. The fire department and local police are investigating the cause of the fire. It is known that the fire point is on the 1st floor.
It is reported that the first-floor store that burned first is currently a second-hand home appliance company, and the door is usually filled with old refrigerators, washing machines and air conditioners. A fire broke out late at night for unknown reasons, and the fire was quite fierce and quickly spread to the third floor. Before the fire alarm occurred, a loud noise came from
, and then the fire began to spread. The 12-story building of the building instantly fell into the sea of fire, and many residents kept screaming for help.
Kaohsiung City Fire Department dispatched 75 fire trucks and 159 people to the scene to extinguish the fire. After the fire broke out at 2:54 am that day, the fire was controlled at 4:41 and extinguished at 7:16 am.
City Central City Building has a history of 40 years. It has 13 floors above the ground and 2 floors underground. It is a commercial and residential mixed building. The first and second floors underground are not used. The first to 5 floors above the ground are abandoned. There are about 120 households from the 7th to 11th floors. Group rents are rampant in the building, mostly elderly people living alone.
Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chi-mai said on the 14th that the possibility of artificial arson cannot be ruled out, and the police have brought back 4 suspects.
Taipei Zhongshi News Network said that the police have brought back the owner of the house surnamed Guo, the owner of the electrical appliances business in the building, the taxi driver who witnessed the case, and a woman who quarreled before the fire broke out and brought back to the branch office for inquiries to find out the cause of the major fire.
This is the fire alarm with the worst casualties in Kaohsiung City since 1989.
Kaohsiung The fire alarms in recent years have more than 10 deaths include: 24 deaths and 0 injuries in the arson case of Kowloon Building in 1989, 17 deaths and 6 injuries in the Sanwen Nuan fire on Bade Road in 1991, 18 deaths and 13 injuries in the Citi Hotel fire in 1992, and 32 deaths and 308 injuries in the Bayi Explosion in 2014.
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