Why didn't the alarm go off when a building in Hong Kong caught fire? One man is in danger and two women are unwell.

May 15 According to Hong Kong Wen Wei Po, Yifeng Building in To Kwa Wan, Hong Kong has a history of 45 years. Yesterday afternoon, a house divided into four "one room and one living room" suddenly caught fire, and flames and smoke spewed out of the window, but the fire alarm in the building never sounded, and a large number of residents had to tell each other to escape in a hurry. Firefighters arrived to help evacuate 130 residents, and put out the fire after about 1 hour. In the fire, one male guest was burned to death, and the other two female guests were unwell after inhaling smoke. There was no suspicious fire at first, and the fire department is investigating the cause to understand the fire alarm failure.

Firefighters rescued a man surnamed Su (46 years old) whose hands, feet and back were burned. He received first aid at the scene, wrapped the wound with plastic wrap, put on an oxygen mask and sent it to the hospital. After treatment, he is in a critical period. Two other elderly female guests were unwell when they inhaled smoke during the fire. Fortunately, after being sent to an ambulance for treatment, there is no serious problem and there is no need to send a doctor. As a large number of residents are unable to return home due to the fire, the Kowloon City District Office has opened the Hung Hom Community Hall as a temporary shelter for residents in need.

Bingquan Huang, assistant fire warden of West Kowloon of the Hong Kong Fire Services Department, said that the fire area was about 10 meter by 8 meters. The fire department arrived at the scene three minutes after receiving the fire report. Forty-nine firefighters and ambulancemen were on the scene to put out the fire, and two teams of breathing apparatus teams were dispatched to evacuate about 65,438+030 residents of the building to a safe place. The cause of the fire remains to be investigated.