A fire that broke out today in the city of Changsha in central China destroyed a 218-meter-high skyscraper. Footage taken by eyewitnesses and state television CCTV shows the façade of the building engulfed in flames across all 42 floors of the building.
The incident occurred in the building of the state-owned telecommunications company China Telecom, which is headquartered in the capital city of Hunan province, with a population of ten million. Despite the fear, the fire was brought under control without any loss of life, according to firefighters.
Videos posted on social media show a thick black pillar fleeing the building and people fleeing to avoid hitting the angry rubble falling from the sky.
“According to preliminary investigation, (the fire) may have occurred on the outer wall of the building,” Hunan province firefighters wrote on the social network Weibo. Said.
The same source said, “The fire is under control and there were no casualties,” adding that the first aid call was at 3:48 PM (04:48 GMT).
Netizens posted images of a long articulated arm used by firefighters to splash water onto the surface of a partially burned building.
In a message posted on Weibo, China Telecom said “the fire was extinguished at 4:30 PM” and “communication was not cut (by phone)” and confirmed that the loss of life was not immediate.
According to CCTV, the skyscraper was completed in 2000. This relative modernity of the building may partly explain the absence of victims. Fire drills are held regularly in buildings in China’s major cities.
In any case, China is often the scene of deadly fires, partly explained by the sometimes lax enforcement of safety regulations and illegal construction that can make evacuation difficult.
In June 2021, a fire at a martial arts school in central Henan province killed 18 people, most of them children aged 7 to 16.
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source: Noticias
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