Small supermarket owner brave the fire to run out after the withdrawal of six fire extinguishers
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- Category: Ningbo News
- Published: Thursday, 05 July 2012 08:52
source 2012-7-5 9:03:07 Ningbo Evening News
Yesterday at 12 am, located near Ningbo University the Shuangqiao village a row of old houses suddenly caught fire. As the old house is all brick and wood, and hot and dry, the fire quickly spread to a total of seven houses were destroyed.
The incident occurred at the Shuangqiao clothing near the street, next to the old house gathering, full of snacks, department stores, hotels, shops, the channel narrow, but the flow of people. Reporters yesterday rushed to the scene to see only from very far away, the fire engines can not get near the fire, the laying of water into the fire-fighting.
From the scene of the fire the old house is a two-tier wooden structure, has for decades, its opposite on each side of an old house, surrounded by such courtyard. The edge of the main road, has a lot to grab out of the furniture, objects and even stacked to facilitate fire fighters fire.
64-year-old villager, Mr Wong said that around 12:00, he is on the second floor to sleep, I heard downstairs after being awakened by a burst of noise. Window probe a look and found the second floor of the old house opposite the west side of fire, downstairs, surrounded by many people, a few older people are still that cried, and you want to go upstairs, but others pulled.
Many people panic when doing business in the village into its red, picked up a fire extinguisher onto the second floor, facing the ignition point and burst of fierce spray. In his crying, the other villagers have been recruited from elsewhere in the village, five fire extinguishers handed to him.
However, due to the wooden structure housing combustible, the fire spread quickly away, and ran out of six fire extinguishers for the powerless into its red, they can not control the fire, only the withdrawal of the fire. The house filled with smoke, emitting a burst of choking odor, into the red in the hasty evacuation, due to low visibility, slipped and fell from the second floor rolling down.
Villagers arm into its red leaves, and soon the entire second floor and a layer of the west side are caught in a sea of flames. Adjacent to the residents of two old houses have also escaped. Visible smoke from a distance beneath the tens of meters high, frightening scenarios, the entire the Shuangqiao are enveloped in a dark being.
Reporters at the scene learned that Ningbo Fire Brigade mobilization of Jiangbei, Zhenhai, Koto, eight fire engines, more than 50 fire fighters rushed to the scene fire. After three hours of the storm, the fire was finally controlled, the lifting of the danger. The fire building's tenants, some outside their own businesses, and some were outside enjoying the breeze, hearing the news back to see the property were destroyed, many people could not help but burst into tears.
It is understood that the fire into its red Shaoxing, 50-year-old in the village has a small supermarket has more than five years. In the fire, he fell down from the second floor of a sprained right foot, and no cause illness.
At present, for this cause of the fire and loss of the relevant departments is further investigation.
