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| This is the worst fire events in China. |
Today 15 years ago, a Christmas party at the discotheque unlicensed in Luoyang, near the Yellow River in Henan Province, China ended tragically. Fire scorched the area, and about 309 people died.
This is the most deadly fire incident in China since a devastating fire in Xinjiang in December 1994, which killed 324 people.
At that time, many citizens there amid celebrate Christmas in a discotheque located on the top floor of a shopping center. Suddenly, flames appeared from the ground floor of the building which is in the process of the renovation.
It is estimated that the fire was beginning to burn before the party most visitors arrive.
"The fire burning in the basement unnoticed, and finally propagates devour the four-storey building," said one employee at the information office of the city government.
Quoted from History Channel, at 21:30 pm, the visitors finally realized there is a fire. Big mess was struck.
Building exit blocked by huge boxes containing souvenirs. The lift can not be operated due to power outages.
Emergency exit door to the roof of the building is locked. Other emergency exits are already covered with thick black smoke and could no longer be used.
Evacuation paths are available only an emergency exit located behind the bar, but only a handful of visitors who know of its existence. In the end, only 12 people who made it out alive from the building.
Those who survived the most are the ones that jumped out through the window and falls to the mat below. However, the window is too small to pass a lot of people there.
The official number of deaths reported by Fox News is 309 people. Largely due to asphyxiation from smoke inhalation concentrated.
Fire can be controlled by the fire department the next morning. Some authorities believe that the actual death toll reached 500 people, but the authorities considered to cover the actual amount, for failing to enforce safety rules in the building.
History is also recorded on December 25 in 336, was the first Christmas celebrated in ancient Rome to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ - at the command of Emperor Constantine.
On the same date in 1932, an earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale shook China's Gansu province, killing 275 people.
