Articles on the Burning of Shangri-La Ancient City

Fire officers and soldiers changed other fire hydrants. Someone saw that only the fire hydrant in front of the famous Nanka store came out of the water, but after spraying for four or five minutes, there was no water. This puzzled all the people who watched the fire at the scene.

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Dukezong Ancient City, a famous cultural city with a history of 1300 years, is so fragile in the face of this unexpected fire.

Known as the mysterious Shangri-La, it can inspire tourists. The 40,000-square-meter ancient city building was burned overnight and instantly reduced to ashes. Everyone was heartbroken, and the indigenous residents and businessmen collapsed and even despaired.

In the eyes of local people, the fire that "everyone can put out the bucket of water" has been raging 10 hour.

13 savings were destroyed overnight.

The silversmith king collapsed to the ground.

65438+1October 1 1.2 million yuan in the early morning fire burned up his gold and silver jewelry, and all his possessions accumulated in Dukezong ancient city in 13 were also "burned back before liberation". Now, he can only wait for the help of the local government.

In the early morning of the next day after the fire, it snowed heavily in Shangri-La, and the snowflakes fell on the ruins destroyed by the fire, accumulating thicker and thicker. God seems to be fighting against the injustice caused by the fire to the residents of the ancient city and foreign businessmen.

Wang creaked as he walked on the icy road. When he came to the front of his shop, Wang could no longer hide his inner pain. Tears filled the eyes of the 30-year-old man. He didn't want to show his fragile side in front of his wife Zhang Li' e. After the fire destroyed his shop, Zhang Li' e cried in front of him for more than five times, comforting her daughter-in-law every time that "everything will be fine."

This Bai nationality from Heqing, Dali, is the manual inheritor of their national tradition. 13 years ago, he and his younger brother Wang Fengchi came to Shangri-La as apprentices to learn gold and silver processing. In 2005, on the third day after their marriage, Wang He 'e borrowed 80,000 yuan to rent a pavement in Cilang Port, the ancient city of Dukezong, specializing in silver jewelry processing. Silver jewelry processing profit is not high, only 50 cents per gram, but with a good reputation, the couple slowly accumulated and earned the first bucket of gold in life.

Wang was the first businessman who settled in Dukezong ancient city. He said that there were only thirty or forty shops at first, and then it gradually developed into hundreds. The area of shops in the ancient city has gradually become larger, and the original residents of the ancient city have gradually moved out of the ancient city and rented out shops to "businessmen" like them. Among the merchants in the whole ancient city, Dali Heqing accounts for the majority.

In 2008, Wang opened a second shop and transferred the original shop to his younger brother. Wang's business has gradually relaxed from a single silverware and jewelry category to furs, antiques, amber, jadeite, turquoise and other handicrafts, and the business is getting bigger and bigger. He said that before the fire, the value of goods in his shop was estimated to be 654.38+200,000 yuan.

Blocked pool

On the night of the fire, Wang Hee had fallen asleep on the second floor of the shop. Before 1 in the morning, he heard his neighbor shout, "A shop is on fire, get up quickly." He got dressed and walked in the direction of Ruyi Inn in Cangfang Street. He knocked on the door along the road to wake up all the sleeping businessmen and put out the fire. When he arrived at the scene, a fire truck was already putting out the fire.

Ruyi Inn, located in the middle and lower section of the ancient city, is the fire point of this fire.

Zhang Yongxin's shop is located directly opposite the Ruyi Inn, and has been paying attention to the spread of the fire since it started. "At the beginning, Ruyi Inn burned at least 1 hour, and it didn't burn to other people's shops." He said that the fire officers and soldiers did not put out the fire. The first fire truck that came to participate in the fire fighting soon ran out of water. When the fire officers and soldiers connected the fire hose to the fire hydrant about 50 meters away from Ruyi Inn, the fire hydrant did not come out. Fire officers and soldiers changed other fire hydrants. Someone saw that only the fire hydrant in front of the famous Nanka store came out of the water, but after spraying for four or five minutes, there was no water. This puzzled all the people who watched the fire at the scene.

About half an hour later, the second fire truck arrived at the scene. The fire in Ruyi Inn soon spread to the restaurant next door, and the fire began to spread. Seeing that the situation was wrong, Wang also ran home to wake moths. Wang said that they all know that as long as the fire is not controlled, the connected shops will suffer. Many times, they have a habit. If the house is on fire, the neighbors are going to pry open the floor on the second floor to prevent the fire from spreading.

The fire spread violently to the north with the wind. The fire gradually burned from Cangfang Street to Cilang Lane and Beimen Street. The spread of the fire is intertwined with the cries of women, the shouts of men and the "squeaking" sound of flames.

In fact, only when the Ruyi Inn caught fire, many merchants, including Wang and Wang, volunteered to put out the fire, but they were refused by the officers and men of the armed police who kept order at the scene. They told the merchants that the leaders were worried about their personal safety and could not let them participate in the fire fighting work.

Usually, if there is a fire in the ancient city, the local people have a habit. They will call people in the street and adults in the ancient city to go out, with pots in their hands, lined up in a wall, took water from wells in the ancient city, and poured water on them one by one. In the impression of Shi Dajie in Beimen Street, there were three fires in the ancient city of * *, and the fire was also very big. However, with the efforts of the people of the whole city, the fire is usually put out within 2 hours. The final result is that the fire can only burn the burning road surface, and other roads cannot be "occupied" at all.

Being blocked in the front line of fire fighting made the local people very angry. Sister Shi said that there were people carrying pots at the scene, and they couldn't get in, so there was no way. Local people are very familiar with the terrain and know where to cut off the fire source, which can stop the fire from spreading, but fire officers and soldiers do not have these advantages. "Everyone can carry a bucket of water to put out the fire. How can it burn out? " Many people said angrily, of course, I don't know that the starting point of local government actions is really to protect people's lives.

Like many businessmen and residents, Wang just wants to call people and want to participate in the fire fighting. They didn't take care of their property at all, and they didn't expect the fire to burn their shops. His daughter-in-law, Zhang Li, didn't clean up the valuables at home either. When the fire reached his shop, it was already 3 am. When Wang watched the fire engulf his shop, his heart was bleeding, and the achievements of 13 years of struggle were instantly reduced to ashes. There is not even 38 thousand yuan in cash in his safe. He said, "Many people have invested all their belongings in shops, and there are only 20,000 deposits left in their bank cards."

It was not until 65438+1October 1 1 morning that the fire was completely controlled. 335 houses were in ruins, which not only burned a large number of houses in the ancient city, but also caused serious losses to residents' property. The infrastructure of the ancient city was seriously damaged, and a large number of cultural relics and thangka were burned. According to preliminary calculation, the direct economic loss caused by the fire is more than 1 100 million yuan.

65438+1October 1 1 In the morning, the merchants and residents in the ruins cried. Standing in the ice and snow, they are heartbroken, confused and even desperate.

Why did the fire spread?

65438+1613, Liu Qiusheng, executive deputy county magistrate of Shangri-La and director of the Fire Command Office, announced the preliminary investigation results of the fire at the press conference: Tang Mou (female, Shanghainese, 4 1 year-old), the owner of Ruyi Inn, caused a curtain fire due to careless electricity use, which led to a fire. At present, Tang has been under police control.

But that night, Qi Xiaodong, deputy director of Diqing Public Security Bureau, denied the cause of the fire notified by Liu Qiusheng, saying that the cause of the fire was still under investigation.

The current speculation of local merchants is that the lack of water in fire hydrants is the chief culprit leading to the wanton spread of this fire. Chen Tianchang, the detachment leader of Diqing Fire Brigade, admitted at the press conference twice that the fire hydrant was waterless. He said that Dukezong ancient city was built more than 1000 years ago, and there was no fire control facilities. In recent years, considering the fire safety of Dukezong ancient city, Diqing Prefecture and Shangri-La County have reformed the fire hydrant conditions of Dukezong ancient city and built a large number of fire infrastructure, including outdoor fire hydrant systems. The outdoor fire hydrant system was built later and cannot destroy the original appearance of the ancient city. "The entire fire pipeline is exposed to the outside. After winter, the temperature in Shangri-La has reached MINUS 10 degrees Celsius. In order to prevent frost crack, the fire pipeline cannot be filled with water, and water will be released after the situation occurs. Because the water comes down from a height, it takes a certain time for the fire pipeline to be filled with water. " Chen Tianchang said in an interview with the media reporter, "The valve of the fire hydrant is closed this time. Otherwise, it will freeze and explode at low temperature, and the water inside will freeze into ice cubes, so that the incoming water cannot be released. " Chen Tianchang said that in addition, it is not excluded that some residents have not mastered the use of fire hydrants.

Chen Tianchang said that the relevant departments will further carry out in-depth testing and conduct a comprehensive and objective investigation on the problem of waterless fire hydrants.

Yang Yingqiu, director of the Dukezong Management Committee Office, blamed this for the lack of water in the fire hydrant. She said that before the fire broke out, the management Committee and the fire department jointly solved the technical problem of freezing of fire pipes in winter. First of all, they added wooden incubators to each fire hydrant, and they hoped to add chemicals similar to antifreeze to the fire water to ensure that the fire pipes could be flooded for 24 hours, but in the end, the fire department told them that adding such chemicals would only add fuel to the fire. Fire hydrants are useful on weekdays, but the temperature on the night of the fire is very low, MINUS 14 degrees Celsius, which is the coldest time in winter.

But businesses and local residents do not agree with the above statement. Residents reported that before 20 12, the daily drinking water in the ancient city often stopped at weekends. They went to the water company to ask, and the answer was "I don't know". What makes Shi Jie very strange is that the three car washing cities in the ancient city can supply water all day.

Kang Zhihong, the fire brigade of Diqing, once wrote a professional paper "Talking about the present situation and countermeasures of fire safety in Dukezong ancient city", pointing out that the buildings in the ancient city have many combustible components, large space, large fire load and low fire resistance limit. Due to the age of the building, the wooden building components are extremely dry and the surface is coated with a lot of paint. In addition, Thangka, hanging curtain, column brocade, commonly used incense sticks and butter lamps are all very flammable. Once a fire broke out, Dukezong ancient city inherited the characteristics of China traditional architecture and Tibetan folk houses. The buildings in the ancient city are freely arranged according to the situation, and the buildings are connected in series. Most of them are based on single buildings, and the roofs of each building are adjacent. There is neither a firewall nor a fire separation. If the fire is not effectively controlled, it is easy to form a situation in which the fire burns even the camp. The traffic road in Dukezong ancient city is narrow, with a width of 4 meters and a narrow road of about 2 meters, and the fire escape cannot meet the requirements. Secondly, there are some problems in the municipal fire water supply system of the ancient city, such as insufficient number of fire hydrants, unreasonable layout and insufficient pressure.

Li Gang, director of the Cultural Relics Management Office of Diqing Prefecture, said, "The fire in this ancient city is very distressing, but it also reminds us that in the development and utilization of the ancient city, the protection of the traditional culture and living space of the ancient city should be paid enough attention." The restoration and reconstruction of the ancient city should inherit the traditional survival concept and wisdom of the ancient city. Li Gang said, "In the protection, restoration and reconstruction of the ancient city, in addition to the construction of modern fire-fighting facilities, the key is the inheritance of traditional living concepts."

The risk of "repairing the old as the old" in the ancient city

In addition to the heartache of local merchants and residents, this mysterious Shangri-La, which claims to inspire tourists, has touched the hearts of people all over the country.

Dukezong ancient city has a history of 1300 years. It is the best preserved and largest Tibetan residential group in China, and also the hub of the ancient tea-horse road.

Dukezong ancient city was built according to the ideal country of Shambhala in Buddhist scriptures. When the ancient city was built, most of the building materials were made from local materials, and craftsmen found that a kind of white clay produced locally could be used as a coating for the exterior walls of houses, so the exterior walls of houses in the ancient city were painted white, which is still used today. Every night, the white ancient city is decorated with silver moonlight, so the locals call it "Dukezong", which means "Moonlight City" in Tibetan.

Dukezong Ancient City, with an area of 1.6 square kilometers, is now composed of 3 communities and 9 villagers' groups, 1.682 households with 8,297 people, including 236 merchants, and there are 880 houses in the core area.

With the improvement of living standards, before 2002, most of the original residents of Dukezong ancient city moved out of the ancient city and lived in the county. Many houses are rented out to others at a price of several hundred yuan a year, which is used to pile up sundries or to store them. In 2002, Shangri-La County Party Committee and government established Dukezong Ancient City Management Committee to develop and build the ancient city.

In 2003, the ancient city gradually developed and built main roads. The development of the ancient city is carried out according to the principle of "repairing the old as the old", combining rationality with romance, and dividing the core area, radiation area and style coordination area. The staff of the management Committee began to cooperate with the indigenous people, and they funded the renovation and transformation of their houses. Government departments check the appearance of residents' houses and unify the appearance, all of which are designed as Tibetan two-story buildings.

In the process of reconstruction, the local government also analyzed and studied the functions of earthquake resistance, rust prevention, leakage prevention, seepage prevention and fire prevention. Finally, through the way of government departments, they led residents to build Tibetan T-shaped houses with flaky roofs. However, due to the lack of protection funds and high cost, this construction method has not been popularized in the local area. Yang Yingqiu, director of the Dukezong Management Committee Office, said that flaky needs to be purchased from Yunlong County, and it is rarely produced locally, which undoubtedly increases the cost of building houses. Compared with local wooden houses, the construction cost of this kind of house is more than twice as high, and many locals are unwilling. "If it is a sheet frame, its fire protection function is much better than that of a wood structure."

During the development and construction of the ancient city, the local government adopted a combination of private capital and government investment, and invested 654.38+0.4 billion yuan to improve the infrastructure construction of Dukezong ancient city, in which fire-fighting facilities accounted for the majority. Yang Yingqiu said that the ancient city has 6,000 meters of roads and 7,000 meters of fire pipes, and installed 128 fire hydrants to ensure that there are fire hydrants at every point of every road.

Before August 20 13, the local government adopted the tax-free method to attract merchants to settle in the ancient city. Almost all the shops along the street are rented by foreign businessmen and used as handicraft shops, inns, bars and cafes. Except for a few merchants from Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou and Zhejiang, most of them are from Heqing, Dali. Rainbow Fengwei, they almost gave everything they had, and put all their property into the store management of the ancient city.

Shi Dajie, who was born and raised in the ancient city for 37 years, recalled that after the development of the ancient city, the local people listened to the call of government leaders and built houses according to the unified planning of government departments. Almost every family has borrowed 400,000 to 500,000 yuan from the bank, and many people have not paid off their loans. Faced with huge loans, now they can only count on the help of government departments. Sister Shi estimates that without high subsidies, debt reconstruction will be difficult. She said that according to the current building repair price, it will cost 700,000 to 800,000 yuan to build a Tibetan building.

After the fire, the affected people were properly placed in the county 13 hotel by the local government departments, but so far, the local government has not disclosed the planning of reconstruction work except cleaning up the residual fire. Similarly, how to compensate the losses of local residents and enterprises is still unknown.