Jinan Chemical Warehouse Fire Explosive Fire Continues for Two and Half Hours

Chemical warehouse fire caused explosion

The accident happened in Huashan Town where the fire continued for two and a half hours.

Around 4:30 pm yesterday (Jinan), a residential building near East Second Ring Road caught on fire. Eyewitnesses said that the first wave of black smoke flew out of the private house, followed by the spread of fire, which was mixed with boring The sound of explosions, due to the storage of some chemical raw materials in the houses, the fire was very difficult to extinguish. It was not until around 7:00 pm that the fire was controlled.

16:30

The house suddenly caught fire

A man escapes from the fire

"Without any sign, black smoke has drifted in from the outside..." The villager Mr. Wang's home is only a dozen meters away from the burning house. He thinks of the fire that has just occurred. He told reporters that this area is close to the timber market. Not only many people in the village are involved in the timber business, but also many foreigners come to the village to rent timber for processing. “The house that caught fire is the rented house. The landlord there is a 40-something man. He rents the next two floors to others and lives on the third floor.”

The villagers told reporters that it was the first floor where the fire broke out. “They should be treated as small warehouses by tenants. I often see cars parked at his house. Workers carry some lotion and other materials from the car.” Wang The gentleman said that the fire started at around 4:30 in the afternoon. Because there were many iron drums filled with chemicals in the room, the fire spread quickly.

“When the black smoke passed, the fire suddenly emerged from the house. I was only three or four meters away from me.” When Ms. Li returned to her parents’ home, she witnessed the entire process of the fire. She never thought how close she would be to the danger. "After the fire rose, a man in dark clothes ran out of the house and yelled in his mouth as he ran."

16:40

The house contains chemicals

The fire caused another explosion

"Ding" a drowsy explosion broke through the fire, stimulating the eardrum of the villagers, but also plucked people's nerves, unrest slowly spreading among the villagers. In the ten minutes after the fire broke, a drum about 1.2 meters high and about 60 centimeters in diameter suddenly exploded. The drum was sent to the sky about seven or eight meters by the air flow. The liquid in the flame wrapped in the bucket splattered. On the small road beside the residential area, an unpleasant pungent smell spread into the air with the flames of the sea. “Too scary, where the liquid in the bucket falls, where it catches fire, and the road near the residential area becomes a fire road.” Uncle Zhang said that with the road on fire, people in the village could not stand. The brave villagers tried to save the fire, but before they were near the dwellings, everyone was forced back by the heat.

"About ten sounds were heard, and each time the ring was fired, the flames increased a little. When the flames reached the height of three or four floors," Grand Master Zhang told reporters that there was a girl who was about twenty years old at this time. Near the fire was pulled by a woman next to her. "I heard them say they live on the second floor, and the cell phone and ID are still at home."

Repeated fire

Pushing down the wall for a fire forklift

Around 5:00 pm, the fire was extinguished, leaving only a faint black smoke coming out of the courtyard from time to time. But before everyone even breathed a sigh of relief, a stifling explosion came over, and the fire went back from the dwelling. Take it out. The fire was extinguished again around 5:30, but the fire again came out of the ashes like a wayward child. In desperation, in order to enter the room to search for the fire source, fire fighters hired a forklift and, under the driver's operation, knocked down the wall of the burning folk house.

As the wall collapsed, the blue flames came out of the courtyard. The reporter noticed that the house had nothing but seven or eight iron barrels. Each tyke was braved with blue, green, and other colors. Flames. With the efforts of fire fighters, the final fire was controlled around 7:00 pm.

A Huashan government official who participated in the fire fighting at the scene told the reporter that after the fire broke out, they had organized staff to maintain the order in the vicinity. Because there were many houses nearby the fire source and they also depended on several timber markets, in order to prevent dangerous Once again they have sent people to investigate. The specific causes of the current fire, and the specific casualties, the relevant departments are still under investigation.

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