Fire accident in Harbin Swan Hotel.

Swan Hotel is located in Zhongshan Road, Xiangfang District, Harbin. August 1979 broke ground, and June 1980 stopped construction for some reason. 1982 resumed work in April, 1983 was completed in February. According to the original plan, the hotel will not officially open until July 1984, and the relevant leaders requested to open as soon as possible. In this way, the trial operation was hastily started on1983 65438+February 3 1 when all the internal equipment was not equipped and some fire-fighting facilities were not installed.

1985 On April 8/kloc-0, Richard Rongsi Andrich, business development manager of American Energy Engineering (Southeast Asia) Co., Ltd., and colleague Wu Zhuofen and Wen Daoxiang, an American citizen, came to Harbin from Beijing to discuss business with Harbin Refinery, and stayed at Swan Hotel, where Andrich lived 1 1 building. At about 2 1: 30 that day, Andric returned to his room after drinking, lay in bed smoking and fell asleep. At about 23 o'clock, he was suddenly awakened by thick smoke, so he left the room and hurried downstairs. Because he opened the door of the room when he went out, air convection formed, which quickly spread the fire from indoor to outdoor, causing a fire.

It was already late at night, and most of the passengers staying in the hotel had fallen asleep. People didn't notice when the fire broke out. At about 23: 40, a Japanese guest living opposite room 1 123 suddenly heard an abnormal noise outside the door, so he opened the door and looked at it. At this time, the corridor was full of smoke. The Japanese realized the fire, and while trying to escape, he knocked on the doors of other rooms. When people found the fire, they called the police. However, due to poor communication lines, the fire department did not receive an alarm until 0: 37 on 19. The Fire Department has mobilized 5 squadrons, 34 fire engines and 125 officers and men to rush to the fire site. The fire was controlled at1.29,214. The fire destroyed 6 of the 26 rooms in the whole 1 1 floor, and 13 rooms were partially damaged, with an affected area of more than 500 square meters. Most of the ceiling on the walkway was burned, and the aluminum alloy skeleton fell off and was exposed. Among them, 1 16 and its adjacent rooms suffered the most.