A fire broke out in an apartment in Zhongshan District, Bei City in the early morning. Three residents were sent to the hospital, and one of them was in a coma.

Fire and thick smoke suddenly broke out on the second floor of a four-story apartment on Longjiang Road, Zhongshan District, Taipei City in the early morning of today (10th). (Photo taken by reporter Zheng Jingyi)

On the second floor of a 4-story apartment on Longjiang Road, Zhongshan District, Taipei City, fire and thick smoke suddenly broke out in the early morning of today (10th). The fire quickly spread and spread to surrounding floors. The Taipei City Fire Department deployed water lines to extinguish the fire. A total of three residents were rescued from the scene and sent to hospital. One of them, a woman in her 50s who lived on the third floor of the building, suffered multiple burns all over her body and fell into a coma. She is currently being rescued at Mackay Hospital. The exact cause of the fire is still pending further evidence collection by the Fire Investigation Department.

At about 3:16 a.m. this morning, a fire suddenly broke out on the second floor of an apartment on Longjiang Road, Zhongshan District. The fire burned through the decorative compartments. The fire and a large amount of thick smoke climbed up the stairwell and patio, causing the residents on the second and third floors to be trapped. After receiving the report from the public, the fire department did not dare to be careless. It immediately dispatched 4 command vehicles, 20 fire trucks, 6 ambulances and 77 disaster relief personnel to the scene for rescue. It also pulled up multiple water lines and advanced inside to extinguish the fire and search and rescue the trapped people.

Disaster relief personnel successively rescued three injured residents from the second and third floors and sent them to the hospital for treatment. Among them, a woman in her 50s who lived on the third floor fell into a coma when she was rescued, suffering 18% burns and scalds on her body. She was rushed to Mackay Hospital by ambulance for emergency treatment. A man in his 50s who lived on the 3rd floor was conscious when he was rescued, but he also suffered 25% second-degree burns and scalds on his body and was sent to National Taiwan University Hospital for treatment. In addition, a 59-year-old man living on the second floor of the house where the fire broke out suffered blisters on his palms and inhaled excessive smoke when he escaped. Fortunately, he was conscious and was also taken to National Taiwan University Hospital by ambulance for treatment.

After the firefighters put out all their efforts, the fire was successfully and completely extinguished at 3:48 am. After preliminary inspection and search and rescue, it was confirmed that the decoration compartment on the second floor was mainly burned at the scene, and the burning area was initially estimated to be about 20 square meters. The detailed origin of the fire and the exact cause of the fire have been clarified by personnel from the Fire Investigation Division of the Taipei City Fire Department who have cordoned off the scene to collect evidence.