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VIDEO. In China, the impressive images of a skyscraper ravaged by a violent fire

2022-09-16T11:19:14.617Z


A fire broke out on Friday for an as yet unknown reason in a skyscraper in the city of Changsha in central China. None


In China, flames ravaged a skyscraper in the large city of Changsha in the center of the country on Friday.

The fire, now extinguished, affected the building of the telephone operator China Telecom in this city which has 10 million inhabitants.

Images broadcast by public television CCTV showed huge and powerful orange flames ravaging an entire side of the building, which has 42 levels above ground.

Videos posted on social media show extremely dense black smoke billowing from the building and passers-by fleeing to avoid being hit by incandescent debris falling from the sky.

"According to a preliminary investigation, the fire "would have started on an exterior wall of the building," said the province's fire department.

“The fire has been extinguished and no victims have been found,” they said, saying they received the first call for help at 3:48 p.m. (07:48 GMT).

"The fire was extinguished around 4:30 p.m." and "(telephone) communications were not interrupted," said China Telecom, confirming the absence of a victim for the moment.

Construction of the skyscraper was completed in 2000, according to CCTV.

This relative modernity of the building could partly explain the absence of victims for the moment, fire drills being regularly practiced in buildings in large cities.

However, fatal fires occur regularly in China, where the sometimes lax application of safety instructions and illegal construction can make it difficult to evacuate a burning building.

In June 2021, in the province of Henan, in the center of the country, a fire at a martial arts school killed 18 people, most of them students aged between seven and 16.

Source: leparis

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