Huayu News reported that the famous Chinese shoe manufacturer in Las Vegas and the co-founder of Zappos, Tony Hsieh, died in a fire in a friend’s house in Connecticut at the end of 2020. The case was raised after investigation by the local fire department. The report stated that the cause of the fire was inconclusive, but it is believed that Xie Jiahua was unconscious at the time. The fire may have been accidental, but it did not rule out the possibility of man-made arson.
▲The fire point. (The picture is from the New London Fire Department)
According to reports, during the stay of Xie Jiahua in his friend’s Kangzhou seaside mansion in November 2020, the case of a fire that caused serious injuries and death has still left many doubts. The fire department went through 2 After the monthly investigation, the preliminary findings will be announced.
According to Vernon Skau, fire chief in New London, Connecticut, the cause of the fire is inconclusive, but the report lists several possibilities, perhaps caused by heaters, cigarette butts, marijuana smoke or candles It may also be caused by Xie Jiahua accidentally or deliberately causing the fire. In addition, when Xie Jiahua was lying on the fire, he was surrounded by burning candles, as well as heaters, marijuana pipes, wine bottles, and nitrous oxide (commonly known as laughing gas) inflatable bottles. It is inferred that he had been affected by drugs and alcohol.
Investigators pointed out that late at night on November 17 last year, the night before the fire, Xie Jiahua quarreled with his girlfriend Rachael Brown (Rachael Brown), the registered owner of the luxury house, and then walked on his own because of the dirty residential environment. When I went to sleep in the backyard cabin, the temperature was about 34 degrees Fahrenheit (about 1.1 degrees Celsius) that night. Xie Jiahua’s brothers and friends visited the cabin many times to check the situation and found that he was lighting candles in the house, even burning plastic bags and blankets to keep warm. Many people reminded him This will produce toxic fumes, and my friend later moved to a portable heater.
At 3 o'clock in the morning on January 18th local time, Xie Jiahua’s brother went to the cabin and reminded that when he was leaving for the airport, he would go to Hawaii for medical rehabilitation, but Xie Jiahua asked him to come back in 5 minutes. It caught fire, but the door of the hut was locked. The firefighters rushed to rescue Xie Jiahua and rushed to the hospital for rescue. After 9 days, Xie Jiahua died of complications caused by inhalation of heavy smoke.He was 46 years old.
According to his friends in a media interview, Xie Jiahua had a problem with drug abuse during his lifetime. A few months before the incident, he often breathed laughing gas and drank alcohol, and he was obsessed with candles. The situation became more and more out of control. It is believed that these reasons were responsible for Xie Jiahua’s death Some factors. (Original title: Sudden death report of Chinese online shoe merchant Xie Jiahua is released)
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