CCTV is on fire? What happened? Anyone who knows the specific situation can tell me. Thank you in advance```

Xinhuanet, February 9th: At 20:27 on the evening of the 9th, a fire broke out at the construction site of the affiliated cultural center building under construction in the new CCTV campus in the East Third Ring Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing. The raging fire broke out in three and a half hours. It was effectively controlled after hours, but sporadic open flames could still be seen at the scene. The fire has so far injured 7 people.

The 7 wounded were sent to the hospital for treatment, with no life-threatening injuries.

Among the 7 wounded, 6 were firefighters and 1 was a CCTV staff member. They are receiving treatment at Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, which is closest to the fire scene, and are now out of danger. Hou Shengcai, deputy director of Chaoyang Hospital, said that as of 0:30 on the 10th, three injured people were still in a coma, but their lives were not in danger. The injured were all suffering from inhalation shock and would not cause any harm to their bodies after treatment.

Witnesses said that when the fire was fierce, the flames were nearly 100 meters high and the smoke was billowing. At one point, the full moon on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month was completely obscured. Ashes falling from the building where the fire broke out fell like flakes of snow within a 1 kilometer radius. Thousands of people watched nearby and took out their mobile phones to take pictures.

After receiving the alarm, the Beijing 119 Command Center quickly dispatched 16 squadrons and 54 fire trucks to the scene. However, because the fire-fighting equipment could not be deployed, only a small number of fire-fighting water cannons were used to extinguish the fire. The fire-fighting water pressure was insufficient. The fire-fighting water cannons could only reach a height of 30 to 40 meters, and it was impossible to control the nearly 100-meter-high fire.

The police implemented traffic control on the East Third Ring Road and Chaoyang Road around the fire scene, prohibiting pedestrians and vehicles from passing. Subway Line 10 adjacent to the building was also temporarily closed.

At around 22:00, SWAT team members arrived at the scene and urgently evacuated the surrounding onlookers.

Preliminary investigation shows that the fire was caused by illegal fireworks

The building where the fire broke out is an important part of the CCTV new site project - the Television Cultural Center, which is 159 meters high and is known as The North Annex Building is adjacent to the landmark CCTV new building. The new CCTV site project is located in the core area of ??the Central Business District (CBD) of Chaoyang District, Beijing. It was designed by the Dutch Metropolitan Architecture Office (OMA) and officially started construction in May 2005. The entire project budget reaches 5 billion yuan.

"At first, only the upper parts of the building caught fire, but soon the lower parts also started to burn. The flames were very high and black smoke was billowing. It was very scary." said an eyewitness named Chang. She lives on the 19th floor of a residential building one kilometer away.

An unnamed witness said he worked for the construction unit of the cultural center building. He said that before the fire broke out, someone set off fireworks nearby.

“The anti-aircraft gun fireworks fell on the roof of the building, and because they were made of flammable waterproof materials, the fire started there first,” he said.

According to the person in charge of the Information Office of the Beijing Municipal Government, preliminary investigations by relevant departments revealed that the fire at the new CCTV site was caused by illegal fireworks. The specific cause of the accident is under further investigation.

The person in charge said that the main structure of the cultural center was not seriously affected.

Read more about the new CCTV building

The new CCTV station is located at East Third Ring Road Middle Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing (formerly the "BAIC Motorcycle Factory Site"), close to the East Third Ring Road. CBD core area, covering an area of ??197,000 square meters. The total construction area is about 550,000 square meters, the tallest building is 234 meters, and the total investment in construction and installation is about 5 billion yuan. The construction content mainly includes: main building (CCTV), Television Cultural Center (TVCC), service building and media park.

The designer of the CCTV headquarters building is Rem Koolhaas (Netherlands). It was selected as one of the top ten architectural wonders in the world in 2007 by the American "Time" magazine (published in advance on December 24, 2007). However, this building has been controversial due to its huge cost (approximately 5 billion yuan), too peculiar shape, and safety and traffic hazards.

The architectural design plan for the new CCTV station construction project mainly consists of the main building, the TV Cultural Center and ancillary supporting facilities.

The main building is divided into five areas according to different business functional requirements: administrative area, comprehensive business area, news production and broadcasting area, broadcasting area, and program production area. There are also service facilities and infrastructure buildings. The total construction area is approximately 380,000 square meters. The TV Cultural Center contains different functional facilities such as hotels, TV theaters, and recording studios, with a total construction area of ??approximately 60,000 square meters.

Other ancillary facilities are mainly parking facilities and guard buildings, with a total construction area of ??approximately 110,000 square meters.

Expert judges believe that this is a plan that is neither humble nor overbearing, with a distinctive personality and no exclusivity. As a beautiful and powerful sculpture image, it can not only represent the image of new Beijing, but also express the importance and culture of television media in the language of architecture. Its structural plan is novel and implementable, and will promote the creation of structural systems and structural ideas for high-rise buildings in China. Expert judges believe that the implementation of this plan will not only establish the iconic image of CCTV, but also open a new page in the Chinese construction industry. (Source of this article: Xinhuanet Author: Li Jiangtao, Li Shu, Sun Xiaosheng, Ji Shaoting, Bai Xu, Li Jianmin, Guitao, Song Xuniu)

The atrium of the burned annex building has collapsed

Preliminary understanding is that the fire affected an area of ??more than 10 Ten thousand square meters, the atrium on more than ten floors of the building has collapsed, and the digital computer room located in the studio hall on the south side of the building was burned down.

The 9th is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month in the Chinese lunar calendar. It is the traditional festival of the Lantern Festival. People have the custom of making lanterns and setting off fireworks. According to the Beijing Municipal Government, this day is also the last day that fireworks can be set off in the Fifth Ring Road area during this year’s Spring Festival.

Previously, Beijing had experienced no effective precipitation for 106 consecutive days and the air was dry. However, Beijing meteorological experts said on the evening of the 9th that the current ground wind speed in the area where the new CCTV building is located is 0.9 meters per second, which is a gentle breeze and basically will not cause a serious situation where wind helps the fire.

The building where the fire broke out houses the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Beijing, which has 241 luxury rooms.

Liu Qi and others rushed to the scene to direct the firefighting

A CCTV employee surnamed Chen told reporters that the building was used as a post-production site for TV programs during the Olympics and should be unoccupied now. , where interior renovations are taking place.

However, some witnesses said that there were lights on the eighth or ninth floor of the building when the fire broke out, and maybe someone was inside.

Liu Qi, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee, Liu Yunshan, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee, Guo Jinlong, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee and Mayor, Director of CCTV Zhao Huayong and others rushed to the scene quickly after the fire broke out to direct the firefighting.