Family of 4 dies on the 4th floor from a massive inferno after going to Halloween party
Taiwan News
Date: 2017/10/30
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A family of four was killed by a fire that engulfed in their
Fire kills family of four in Taipei. (By Central News Agency)
home on Yangping Road in Taipei in the early hours of Sunday morning, according to the Taipei City Government Fire Department.
After attending a Halloween party on Saturday evening and returning home to turning in for bed, a massive fire suddenly broke out at around 3:00 a.m. on the third floor of their building, trapping them in their fourth floor apartment. Neighbors who heard their cries for help for until about a minute before the fire department arrived, and then they went silent.
The Taipei Fire Department said that after receiving a call about the fire at 3:16 a.m., they dispatched 34 fire trucks and ambulances and 90 rescuers, who arrived at the scene at 3:22 a.m. When rescue crews arrived, the entire 3rd and 4th floors were completely engulfed in flames and it took firefighters until 4:46 a.m. before they were able to extinguish the blaze. [FULL STORY]
