NURSING HOME SECTION:The alarm was raised at 4:36am and the fire was put out about an hour later. An electrical bed might have been the source of the blaze
Taipei Times
Date: Aug 14, 2018
By: Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
Nine people were killed and 30 injured in an early-morning fire yesterday at the
Members of the media gather outside the Taipei Hospital in New Taipei City’s Sinjhuang District yesterday, where fire-damaged rooms on the seventh, eighth and ninth floors of the building can be seen. Photo: Daniel Shih, AFP
Taipei Hospital in New Taipei City’s Sinjhuang District (新莊).
New Taipei City Fire Department Director Huang Te-ching (黃德清) said he received a report of a fire at 4:36am, from room number 7A23 in the hospice section of the nine-story hospital.
Thick smoke was already pouring from the seventh floor of the building when firefighters arrived, he said.
Four patients and a foreign worker were in room 7A23 when the fire broke out, he said. [FULL STORY]
