Taiwan News
Date: 2016-09-29
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
A man surnamed Lin ignited natural gas in his house early Thursday morning in Wanhua District, Taipei 
Taipei City Fire Department (TCFD) received a report at 5:10 a.m. on Thursday that a man was trying to commit suicide inside his residence on Xizang Rd.
TCFD team leader Hsieh En-chi said when they arrived on the scene, Lin, 60, had locked his house and would not answer the requests to open the door. Firefighters were later able to enter the house after Lin’s family giving them the key to the house.
Hsieh said that after they got into the house, they saw Lin and a 50-year-old woman were having an argument and the house smelled of gas. As firefighters proceeded to talk Lin into giving up his idea of causing harm to himself and others, Lin lit the gas with a lighter, and a ball of fire came rushing through in front of their eyes, which they had no way of dodging, Hsieh said, adding that the equipment on their bodies was torched and the walls of the house were blast open. [FULL STORY]