After Urumqi fire, tragedy repeated in Xi’an
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After the fire in Urumqi, Xinjiang, sparked China’s “White Paper Revolution,” another fire was reported at an apartment in Xi’an city, Shaanxi province, on the afternoon of December 1.
After the fire in Yurimchi, Xinjiang sparked China's white paper revolution,
another fire was reported in an apartment in Xi'an City,
Shaanxi Province on the afternoon of December 1st.
Xena reported that the Xi'an Fire Brigade said that they received information of smoke coming
from the upper floors of the Fengming residence in Weiyang District at 1.21pm local time and
firefighters arrived at the scene 11 minutes later. Because the fire started in the lobby,
hallways and stairs on the first floor in Building 6 were thick with smoke and spread
to the upper floors. By 2pm, the fire had been extinguished and the rescue team checked each
floor, each apartment and evacuated residents. After the fire was extinguished, reports said
of the 8 people who had been trapped, 5 people died. Earlier, state media had reported that
several people were injured but no details are still coming in. Causes of the fire is being
investigated. According to the news on the internet, the fire was very large and started
from the bottom of the building. Many residents could not get out, they could only climb out of
their windows. Foreign media reported that, after the fire started, some residents climbed out of
the windows and waited to be rescued. Locals also said that residents on upper floors could not get
downstairs so they had to find a way to escape. According to Sound of Hope, locals said that an
electric car parked on the front floor caused fire and started to blaze. Images posted by netizens
showed the fire in an apartment on the first floor. Immediately after, thick smoke came out
of many windows on the upper floors. Firefighters quickly extinguished the fire on the first floor
but smoke still billowed from the windows higher up. A photo shared by netizens shows a family of
three living on one of the upper floors covered in black smoke, climbing out of a window, waiting
to be rescued. Another video shows that the entire building engulfed in thick smoke. Residents have
no way out. Many residents had to climb out of windows. Very dangerous.