A fire in a hotel in Suzhou, Jiangsu occurred on Thursday (February 16), causing 28 deaths to be injured.
According to the "Xiangcheng City" of the Propaganda Department of the Xiangcheng District Committee of Suzhou City, the location of the fire was No. 1 Pearl Lake Road, Weitang Town. The time was 6.7 in the morning.The fire has been extinguished at 7:10 in the morning, and the search and rescue on the spot has been completed.The accident caused six people to die, and 28 were sent to the hospital for treatment. Two of them were severely injured and there was no danger of life.The cause of the fire is under investigation.
The shop owner of the nearby shop told the Beijing News that the fire was a hotel in Weitang Town.He said that someone heard someone call for help around 6 am and found that the nearby "Changhong Hotel" was on fire.He saw at the scene that a hotel resident hurriedly fled downstairs.After calling 119, the owner of the surname of Li picked up the two fire extinguishers in the shop to help the fire extinguish the fire. The fire was closer to the fire station, and the fire was quickly controlled.
The man named Dai, who runs the shop opposite Changhong Hotel, said that the second, third, and fourth floors of the building where Changhong Hotel is located is the hotel, and the first floor is the entrance of the shop and the hotel.He said that when the fire occurred, he saw some guests in the hotel climbing the window and jumped off the building to escape, and some people hung on the air conditioner, and some people escaped through the curtains.At around 6 o'clock, the whole town could hear the sound of fire trucks. At 7:30, the fire had been extinguished, and there was a burnt taste in the air.
Emergency staff of the Third People's Hospital of Xiangcheng District said that many fire injuries were treated on the morning, including minor injuries and serious injuries.The medical department of the hospital said that the hospital had received two female wounded and three male wounded. At present, only one injured is hospitalized.
