Building has 42 floors and was constructed in 2000; The fire was brought under control by firefighters and initial investigations show there are no injuries.
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one Fire destroyed a 218meter high skyscraper in the Chinese city of Changsha on Friday, April 16, but no one was injured, according to an initial assessment by the fire brigade. Videos posted to social media show a thick black pillar escaping from the building and people fleeing to avoid being hit by glowing debris falling from the sky. The city of Changsha with ten million inhabitants is the capital of the province of Hunan. The building has 42 floors above ground and according to firefighters in an interview with the social network Weibo, the fire started in an outer wall of the building. “The fire was brought under control and no casualties were found,” said the same source, adding that the first call for help was made at 15:48 (4:48 GMT) and the fire was under control around 16:00 . The ailing skyscraper was completed in 2000, according to CCTV. This relative modernity of the building might partly explain the lack of casualties. THE China It is often the scene of deadly fires, partly explained by the sometimes lax enforcement of safety regulations and illegal construction that can make evacuation difficult, which is why fire drills are regularly held in buildings in China’s major cities. In June 2021, a fire at a martial arts school in central Henan Province killed 18 people, most of them children between the ages of 7 and 16. In 2017, two fires killed more than 20 people in Beijing neighborhoods inhabited by migrant workers from other provinces. In 2010, a major fire devastated a 28story apartment building in Shanghai, killing 58 people.
A fire of terrible proportions destroyed the China Telecom building in the city of Changsha this morning. Local sources put the number of victims in the hundreds. pic.twitter.com/FcaTu07oTD
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*With information from AFP