The notice stated that at 13:21 that day, the command center of the Xi'an Fire Rescue Detachment received a report from the public: Smoke was coming from high-rise residential buildings in Fengming Huafu Community, Weiyang District, and the command center immediately dispatched 1

Beijing News (Reporter Cong Zhixiang) At around 21:00 on December 1, the official Weibo of Xi'an Fire Rescue Detachment of Shaanxi Province issued a police report (hereinafter referred to as the notice). The notice stated that at 13:21 that day, the command center of the Xi'an Fire Rescue Detachment received a report from the public: the high-rise residential of the Fengming Huafu Community in Weiyang District was smoking, and the command center immediately dispatched 18 vehicles and 76 people to the scene to deal with it.

13:32, rescue personnel from the fire rescue station in the jurisdiction arrived at the scene. After investigation, it was found that debris in the lobby, aisle and stairwell on the first floor of Building 6 of the community caught fire, and the smoke at the scene was heavy and spread along the corridor to the upper floor.

13:50, open fires at the scene were extinguished, and the participating forces continued to investigate and evacuate people from layer to layer, rescued 8 trapped people, of which 5 died ineffective rescue, and the other 3 had stable vital signs. The preliminarily estimated that the overburn area is about 25 square meters, and the cause of the fire is under investigation.

Fire scene. The picture comes from the Internet

At around 10:00 on December 2, staff from the Office of the Emergency Management Bureau of Weiyang District, Xi'an City told the Beijing News reporter that the cause of the fire is still under investigation, and the Emergency Management Bureau and other departments are still dealing with the accident on the spot. Subsequently, the reporter called the Fire Dispatch Command Center of Xi'an Public Security Bureau, and its staff said it was not convenient to disclose the accident handling situation at present.

Two fire witnesses restored the scene to the reporter. Zhang Xin (pseudonym) is a resident of the community. When the fire broke out, he happened to pass by the scene. "The fire was quickly controlled. At that time, a person was taking refuge outside the window and had been rescued." He also told reporters, "Tonight (December 1), the affected residents in the building have found a resettlement location and temporarily settled. There is no one in the building now, and the staff went door to door to check." When the fire broke out, another witness Liu Jia (pseudonym) was at his younger brother's home, opposite Building 6 where the fire broke out. She recalled, "At around 13:00 on the 1st (On the 1st), I saw smoke starting from Building 6, and there was an open fire on the first floor." She said she was at the scene until around 17:00, and during this period she saw many people in distress rescued.

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