In the early morning of 2011, a fire broke out in a residential building in Tonghua City, Jilin Province, with thick smoke billowing from the building. The local fire department quickly rushed to the scene to put out the fire. The entire building was burned beyond recognition. Was it an accident or on purpose?
The fire occurred in a prosperous area of ??Tonghua City. The first floor of the building is a bar, the second floor is a KTV, and the third to seventh floors are family hotels.
The fire broke out in the early morning when many guests in the high-rise hotel were asleep. The fire caused many casualties. Taxi driver Song Song, a witness who passed by the burning building, said he passed by the hotel around 3 a.m. when the fire was spreading to higher floors. Many people started shouting "fire" and ran to put out the fire. A few minutes later, fire engines arrived at the scene.
Mr. Jiang, who lived on the third floor, was one of the survivors. He was horrified when he recalled what happened that night. In the early morning of that day, Mr. Jiang was still sleeping upstairs when he suddenly heard a loud noise and someone crying outside.
When he got up and opened the door to check, he smelled a suffocating smell of smoke and knew the door was on fire.
Xiao Kang took a wet towel from the bathroom, covered his mouth and nose, and ran out along the escape route. When he ran to the west stairs, he found that the smoke was getting thicker and he could not escape.
So Mr. Kang returned to the room, closed the door, and ran to the window to call for help. Fortunately, the firefighters who were rescuing the high-rise building that day saw Mr. Jiang calling for help, and he was rescued in time.
However, because there were many people living in this building that day and it was early in the morning, many people living in high-rise buildings had no time to evacuate.
After receiving the fire report at 3:24 in the morning, the fire department rushed to the rescue scene as soon as possible to carry out fire extinguishing, evacuation and search and rescue work.
At the same time, local hospitals also sent multiple ambulances and medical staff to the scene to treat the injured. Jiang and other lightly injured persons suffered some skin injuries while fleeing the scene, and the on-site ambulance personnel bandaged Jiang on the spot.
However, many people living in high-rise buildings at that time suffered from dizziness, heart palpitations and other symptoms due to inhaling a large amount of smoke, and were immediately sent to the hospital after rescue.
However, due to the fierce fire, 9 people lost their breathing on the spot, and 2 people died after being rescued.
The youngest was 12 years old and had difficulty breathing when he was rescued. Tonghua City Hospital immediately called in experts for rescue, but the situation was not optimistic and they could only ask experts from the province to continue treatment.
After the fire was brought under control, the police investigated the scene and found that someone had deliberately set the fire.
After police investigation and evidence collection, the arsonist was finally arrested. In order to obtain the right to operate an underground bar, the principal criminal Wang Jiansong, after negotiating with the bar manager to no avail, deliberately retaliated and enlisted the help of two other **** criminals Wang Lu and Qu Long who were directly involved in the arson case.
At the same time, there are four criminal suspects who either helped Wang Jiansong purchase, or covered Wang Jiansong's crime and then escaped.
In the end, the court held that Wang Jiansong and others deliberately set the fire, causing heavy economic losses, many casualties, and extremely harmful to society. In the end, the three principal criminals were sentenced to death, and several other criminals were sentenced to death.
Due to temporary selfish desires, they ignored the safety of people's lives and property, and ultimately paid a heavy price.