The weather in Texas, USA

The New York Times local time 19 reported that a fire broke out in an apartment building in San Antonio, Texas, USA. However, due to extreme weather, local fire hydrants were frozen and could not be put out in time. Residents can only watch the house being swallowed up by the fire.

According to the report, the fire broke out from Thursday night to Friday morning local time, and local residents waited for rescue after the first evacuation. However, when rescuers arrived, the fire hydrants in front of and around the apartment were frozen due to the recent extremely cold weather and could not be used. According to the report, these residents can only stand in the cold wind and watch their houses being swallowed up by the fire.

Finally, firefighters found a nearby stream and used large trucks to carry water to put out the fire, but firefighters said that the water supply of these trucks was only enough for a few minutes at a time. After 125 firefighters put out the fire for several hours, the fire was finally put out.

It is reported that this apartment has 32 units. The fire destroyed almost the whole apartment and some buildings collapsed. About 130 people lost their homes and there were no casualties. A local resident named Henshaw said that when the fire broke out, he and his wife ran away with their laptops. Henshaw said? Texas is not prepared for the winter snowstorm. It froze the pipeline, which was the ultimate cause of the fire. It's really hard. ?

In the past few days, Texas in the United States has suffered from extremely cold weather, which has led to water and power outages in many places. On the 20th local time, the White House issued a statement. President Biden declared a major disaster in Texas and ordered the US federal government to provide assistance to support the recovery work of state and local governments since February's winter storm 1 1.

The whole of Texas is frozen? With the powerful Arctic vortex system heading south in mid-February of 20021year, rare low-temperature weather appeared in many places in the United States, and the low-temperature record in many places in the central United States was broken. Extreme cold, snowstorm, freezing rain and other bad weather have caused many places to freeze, and Texas in the United States has frozen unprecedentedly all over the country, even Houston, the largest city.

Under the attack of snowstorm and cold, Texas suffered a severe blow. According to news reports, before the cold wave in mid-February, the shortage of natural gas had limited the power generation in Texas. On February 13, after the cold air mass was pulled to the south by the Arctic vortex, the demand for electricity in Texas surged, and many places in Texas fell into darkness due to power restriction measures and damage to transmission lines. According to media reports, the wholesale electricity price in Texas once expanded by 200 times, and the price exceeded $65,438+00,000 /MWh. More people are facing the problem of water supply interruption.