On the afternoon of October 19, the Emergency Management Bureau of Panji District, Huainan City, issued the "Latest Report on the Fire Situation of Self-built Houses in Wangwei Village, Jiahe Town".
According to the report, the bureau received a report at 05:03 on October 19 that a fire broke out in a self-built house in Wangwei Village, Jiahe Town, Panji District, Huainan City. As of 14:52 today, the on-site rescue ended, and a total of 9 people were killed.
Aftermath disposal and investigation into the cause of the fire are ongoing.
Source: Official website of the People's Government of Panji District, Huainan City
At noon on the 19th, according to the CCTV news client, the reporter learned from the Emergency Management Bureau of Panji District, Huainan City, Anhui Province, that at about 05:03 on October 19, a fire broke out in a supermarket in a self-built house in Wangwei Village, Jiahe Town, Panji District, Huainan City, and 7 people were rescued and rescued, all of whom had no vital signs, the fire was extinguished, and 2 people were missing.
Xinhua News Agency reporters saw at the scene of the accident that the fire broke out in a self-built house near the Panji Power Plant in Jiahe Town, Panji District. The self-built house has four floors, the upper two floors are steel structure buildings, which have been destroyed by fire.
In the afternoon of the same day, a reporter from China News Network learned from the Emergency Management Bureau of Panji District, Huainan City, that the remains of the nine victims of the fire in the self-built house in Panji District have all been found.
According to the Beijing News, at about 19 o'clock on the 19th, the staff of the Fire and Rescue Brigade of Panji District, Huainan City, told reporters that the cause of the fire and the location of the fire are still under investigation, and at present, the landlord of the self-built house has been controlled by the police.
According to the firefighters in charge of the rescue at the scene, most of the people living in the self-built houses are migrant workers, who are usually working on the second phase of the construction project of the nearby Panji Power Plant. After the incident, the local relevant departments have interviewed the contractor, the tenant, the construction project department and other personnel. A worker on the project told reporters that among the victims were employees of Anhui Electric Power Construction Company. Another worker on the project said the project would be suspended for one day tomorrow.
According to a report by Southern Metropolis Daily on the 19th, Liu Gang (pseudonym), a neighbor of the self-built house involved, told reporters that at 4:17 in the morning of the same day, he found that "it had been smoked", and the fire at the scene was very large. Liu Gang said that the self-built house is a factory, and the two-story factory building is connected to a four-story residential building. "The people who live over there are the workers at the power plant."
Liu Gang told reporters that the fire was suspected to have started due to the electricity used by the renters. "The landlord also put out the fire in the early stage, but the fire along the line broke out quickly and couldn't be controlled."
Source: Beijing News Our video
The reporter noticed that the leaders of the Huainan Municipal Party Committee went to Tianjia'an District, Huainan City on May 10, 2022 to investigate and supervise the special rectification work of self-built housing safety. At that time, the leaders of the Huainan Municipal Party Committee emphasized that it is necessary to firmly establish the concept of people first and life first, and strictly grasp the investigation and rectification of safety risks and hidden dangers of residents' self-built houses with the most resolute attitude, the most rapid action and the most powerful measures, resolutely curb and prevent accidents, and effectively safeguard the safety of people's lives and property.
On August 4, 2022, the Office of the Huainan Fire Safety Committee went to Panji District to investigate and supervise the special rectification of fire safety inspections and the comprehensive management of fire safety in high-risk places such as production and operation, rental and self-built houses.
In Wangwei Village, Jiahe Town, Panji District, the Municipal Consumer Safety Committee Office and his party inspected the progress of the eight types of remediation key points in the early stage around the construction site of Panji Power Plant and the grading rectification of the case, and supervised and inspected the implementation of the graded responsibility for the fire control work of the production and operation of rented and self-built houses and the closed-loop rectification of hidden dangers by consulting the ledger and comparing the list.
The Supervision Group of the Municipal Consumer Safety Committee Office requires that the bottom number should be clarified, and in view of the dynamic change characteristics of the group rent of self-built houses around key construction projects, by mobilizing the grassroots mass prevention and control forces, carry out detailed mapping and arrangement, and ensure a comprehensive and accurate grasp of the base information. It is necessary to speed up rectification, in view of the hidden dangers found at present, and compare the eight types of rectification priorities for production and operation, rental and self-built houses, once again list the list of hidden dangers and the list of rectification responsibilities, put forward practical rectification plans according to local conditions, clarify the time limit for rectification, consolidate the rectification responsibilities of all parties, and implement rectification measures one by one.
On March 5, 2023, the Huainan City Fire and Rescue Detachment also issued a document stating that fire accidents in self-built houses occur from time to time, and the losses are huge, and it is necessary to do a good job in daily fire prevention work.
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