Taiyuan, Shanxi reported apartment fire situation: 9 people are still critically injured

China News Service, Taiyuan, November 9 (Reporter Hu Jian) ​​The Taiyuan Municipal Government of Shanxi Province held a press conference on the fire accident at Howard Johnson International Apartment in Yingze District, Taiyuan City on the afternoon of the 9th to inform the relevant situation.

At 16:59 on November 8, a fire broke out at Howard Johnson International Apartment in Yingze District, Taiyuan City. After receiving the alarm, the fire rescue force arrived at the scene at 17:04. The open fire on the scene was extinguished at 19:00. The search and rescue work ended at 20:30, and an evacuation was organized to rescue 60 trapped people. So far, the fire has killed 14 people, and 25 people are being treated in the hospital. Among them, 9 people were critically injured, 4 people were seriously injured, and 12 people were slightly injured.

After the accident, the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government directed and dispatched, and the Taiyuan Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government quickly established an accident handling working group to coordinate emergency response, fire protection, health, transportation, civil affairs, housing construction, urban management, power supply, gas supply, water supply and other units to carry out emergency response work. A total of more than 1,500 emergency rescue personnel were invested, and 13 fire rescue stations, 41 fire trucks, and 243 fire rescue personnel were deployed.

After the incident, the local area dispatched a total of 24 ambulances and more than 100 on-site and on-board ambulance personnel to conduct graded transfers. All injured people were treated accurately with "one person, one dedicated team, one person, one plan". The National Health Commission sent a medical expert team to the designated hospital to guide treatment as soon as possible. Properly carry out comfort and aftermath work for the families of the victims, focusing on families in need such as orphans, widows, the elderly, the weak, and sick, and respond to the family members' appeals in a timely manner.

At present, the local government has taken control measures against the management personnel of the property rights unit and the person in charge of the property company. The cause of the accident is under investigation. The results of the investigation will be announced to the public in accordance with laws and regulations to give a responsible explanation to the families of the victims and the injured people.

In the next step, Taiyuan City will learn from the painful lessons of the accident, learn from the pain, reflect deeply, draw lessons from one example, draw inferences from one example, keep a close eye on risks in key industries, carry out safety production inspections, bottom-up, and rectification throughout the city, tighten safety responsibilities, conduct in-depth investigations of hidden dangers, and effectively safeguard the safety of people's lives and property.