Jingchu News (Chutian Metropolis Daily) continued to operate after the fire, but did not organize personnel to escape. Yesterday, the fire department of Wuhan Public Security made a heavy punishment on Xu Dong's sales of goods in Wuchang, and ordered the fire hazards to be rectified.

At 11: 51 am yesterday, Wuhan 119 Command Center received a fire alarm, and urgently mobilized 51 fire engines from three towns to rush to the scene. The fire originated from the Wal-Mart kitchen operation room on the basement of Pinmao. When a chef was cooking, the oil pan caught fire due to careless operation, and when the fire was put out, the flue was ignited due to improper handling. At that time, smoke billowed from the Pinmao building.

when the fire officers and soldiers arrived, they found that the mall had neither started the emergency plan nor organized the people in the building to escape, and they continued to operate despite the thick smoke. Fire officers and soldiers and police quickly set up a cordon and organized the evacuation of thousands of people in the building. After about 21 minutes, the danger is eliminated.

at about p>12 o'clock, the reporter took the elevator to the 6th floor. There has been a power outage and thick smoke, and neither the fire alarm bell nor the sprinkler system has sprayed water; Dozens of uniformed salespeople are searching around for the source of smoke, but no customers are seen.

After the fire broke out, Deng Zeshun, deputy head of the Wuhan Fire Safety Leading Group and deputy director of the Public Security Bureau, Zhang Xinghui, director of the Fire Bureau, and Ning Guanfa, political commissar, rushed to the scene to direct the fire fighting, and held a fire hazard rectification supervision meeting at the scene, and decided to carry out rectification on Xiaopinmao from now on and carry out fire training and fire drills for all employees. All restaurants are closed, and Wal-Mart is closed; Re-standardize and centralize the layout of catering places, and all areas involving the use of open flames shall be separated by solid walls, and all oil fume passages shall be cleaned.

At present, the public security fire department has deployed special forces to set up four working groups, namely, responsibility investigation, system inspection, passage inspection and area closure, to supervise the rectification of fire hazards on the spot, and the chef who caused the fire has also been detained.

reporter Ye Ning Zhou Peng correspondent Gui Xiaotao Tian Jingchao.