Firefighters found two adults tightly embracing three children in a corner of the burning house
Taiwan News
Date: 2020/05/03
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
(CNA photo)
Kaohsiung City’s Fire Bureau received a report around 7 a.m. that a townhouse on Dalian Street was on fire. A total of 40 fire trucks and more than 90 firefighters arrived at the scene where they found smoke coming out from between the second and fifth floors.
The house owner, Lai Wen-de (賴文德), is a former president of Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital and a cardiologist at the hospital, according to the report. After Lai and his wife ran out of the burning house, they told firefighters two adults and three children were still on the fourth floor.
Firefighters retrieved five people from the house after 8 a.m. and rushed them to hospital, where they were pronounced dead, according to the report. When found by firefighters, the two adults were tightly embracing the three children in a corner of the apartment. [FULL STORY]
