"I looked back and saw a fist-sized fire on the top of the shed next to me." Zhang Jingquan described it to the reporter of Outlook Newsweek afterwards.
The fire extinguisher is beside the counter. Zhang Jingquan hurriedly took one, rushed forward, stood on the counter and sprayed it on the fire. Huang Dewei, who was near the silverware stall, rushed to change his fire extinguisher. Not far away, Wang, who is engaged in the business of warm coats, brought a bucket of water and threw it at the top of the shed.
However, the roof is too high from the ground, the scope of fire extinguishers is limited, and the fire is getting bigger and bigger. "Only three to five minutes, the room is full of smoke, so that everyone can't open their eyes. I took out my mobile phone and dialed 1 19, and then everyone started running out. " Wang said to him.
At this time, on the fifth floor of the commercial building, Zhang is dancing with the senior team members of the model dance troupe as usual. The dance teacher suddenly rushed in: "There is a fire downstairs, so let's run out!" " "
More than 80 old ladies poured out of several classrooms, only to find that the building was dark and someone was crying. At the critical moment, someone found a slow platform outside the window. "I shouted, don't panic, line up." Zhang told reporters afterwards that under her organization, everyone lined up and moved to the platform quickly and orderly.
With more and more smoke, people who have escaped temporarily have to continue to climb. There is a ladder that reaches the top of the building at a distance of more than one person. At this time, four men appeared in time, and you pulled me and helped more than 80 old people climb the roof successfully before the fire spread. The fireman who received the distress signal quickly rescued everyone with a ladder.
Zuguang, manager of Fuanju Furniture Mall on the fourth floor, was not so lucky. When there was smoke in her eureka tower, she organized employees to evacuate downstairs. When she went downstairs with several employees, she found that there were still employees trapped inside, so she returned to the mall to look for them. Finally, I was trapped in the building.
Until the body was claimed, Zuguang's family was still unwilling to accept the fact that she had left.
At the same time, outside the building, our reporter who had arrived at the scene saw that smoke was coming out of this five-story building. Sometimes the smoke is black, sometimes it is yellow, and sometimes it emits flames. Fearing that the smoke may contain toxic gases, nearby residents rushed to the store to buy masks. At one time, the price of masks rose from two to ten.
It was not until 2 1 53 that the fire was completely extinguished. From 9: 00 on 17, the fire lasted 12 hours. Smoke from the fire scene covered half the city. At the beginning of the lights, our reporter stood far away from the scene of the fire, and still could see the smoke floating all over the sky, like a dark cloud pressing the city.
On 20 10 1 1.6, the Information Office of Jilin Municipal Government held a press conference to officially inform the media that the fire caused 19 deaths and 24 others were injured and hospitalized.
The pain of fire and the sadness of the city
According to the preliminary understanding, the 19 people who died were mainly the staff of commercial buildings and the management and service personnel of shops. When the fire broke out, the shopping mall had just opened, and not many customers came in except some dancing old people on the fifth floor.
Wang Wei, who works in Jilin Municipal Government, goes to the fifth floor of Jilin Commercial Building for fitness every noon. He told this reporter that noon and Saturday and Sunday are the busiest times in this shopping mall. If a fire breaks out during this period, a large number of customers are not familiar with the passage situation in the mall, and the consequences will be unimaginable.
Jilin Commercial Building was founded in 1987, opened in 1990, and was transformed into a private enterprise in 1992. Located in the local core business district, with a building area of 1.34 million square meters and a total building area of 42,000 square meters, it used to have unlimited scenery. Since then, the business format has changed several times, and the property rights relationship has become increasingly complex. Before the fire broke out, the first floor of the building operated small department stores for some individual merchants, the second and third floors were Dafuhao Shoes City, the fourth floor was Fuanju Furniture Mall, and the fifth floor was a dance school and gym. There are 64 merchants, 49 managers and 325 managers in the building.
Jin Jiwen, chief of staff of Jilin Public Security Fire Corps, told this reporter that in order to put out the fire, Jilin City dispatched 69 fire engines and more than 300 firefighters to participate in the task. Through active rescue, Suning Appliance located in the south of the commercial building and the shoe city on the second floor of the commercial building were protected from losses.
On the second day after the fire, our reporter came to the scene again and saw that although the overall framework of the building still existed, it was like a ruin. There are several dark gaps on the east side of the building, which are in sharp contrast with the surrounding prosperity; Only a broken corner of the huge advertising banner is swaying in the wind, and the words "dumped goods" are faintly visible.
"Such a magnificent building became like this in the blink of an eye. I don't know when I can restore my original excitement. " Some passing locals shook their heads and sighed.
The pain of fire is also the destruction of this city. Jilin City is known as the "River of the North", the Songhua River runs through the city in an inverted "S" shape, and there is Songhua Lake formed by the construction of hydropower stations in the territory. "Our city just doesn't lack water." Local officials like to say this sentence when attracting investment. But it is such a city that is not short of water, but it has been hit by fires several times in history.
1911On May 8, a fire broke out in Jilin City, which destroyed two-thirds of the buildings in the city and reduced more than 50,000 houses to ashes. 1994, a fire broke out in Jilin Museum, and 6800 square meters of buildings were destroyed, and many cultural relics were destroyed. In 2004, a fire broke out in Zhong Bai Commercial Building, Jilin City, killing 54 people.
This fire has become a hidden pain in the hearts of many local people. This time, when the fire broke out again, although the smoke dispersed, time erased the grief of the deceased relatives and the grief of the merchants' lifelong efforts.
At present, relevant departments are dealing with the aftermath. Huang, who was killed in the fire, works in the canteen of Dafuhao Shoes City. The husband has cerebral hemorrhage, and his life needs someone to take care of him. His son 16 years old, just in senior one. "Sister is gone, what can this family do?" Huang's younger brother choked up after identifying the body.
Zuguang's husband always remembers the text message sent to her by his wife on the day of the fire, wanting to drink soy milk. "I wonder if she has eaten soy milk?" Mother-in-law howled, "son, does it hurt you to burn like that?" ? How painful! "
On the day of the fire, Zhang Jingquan and other businessmen stood in the street, watching the fire getting bigger and bigger, and they wanted to cry. "Now there is nothing, my watch and the watch repaired for others have been burned. I really don't know what life I mean. " Zhang Jingquan whispered.