A public fire in a restaurant in Guangzhou failed to hear the alarm

The eighth floor of the Mayflower Plaza suddenly burst into thick smoke, and three fire engines arrived at the scene. Although the accident did not cause any casualties, it caused hundreds of stranded employees to feel a cold sweat and could not help asking:

Yesterday afternoon, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, a restaurant on the eighth floor of the Mayflower Plaza in Zhongshan Wu Road suddenly appeared thick smoke, three fire engines and an ambulance rushed to the scene. Hundreds of company employees working on the 8th floor were subsequently taken over. Emergency evacuation to the downstairs. The Guangzhou Public Security Bureau released the news on the evening that the accident was caused by the high temperature caused by the kitchen stove's high temperature during the cooking process, which caused smoldering in the oil smoke pipe and produced a lot of smoke. There was no open fire and no casualties occurred. Many people questioned afterwards why did they not hear any alarm or broadcast when a fire broke out?

Hundreds of staff stranded on the first floor lobby

Yesterday at 4:30pm, the reporter immediately rushed to the scene after receiving the report and saw three fire engines and an ambulance parked at the main entrance of Mayflower Square. Hundreds of company employees on the 9th floor and above the 9th floor were stranded at the gate and one. In the lobby of the building, most of them hurriedly took laptops and ran from the fire exit.

A company employee who works on the 12th floor told reporters that at about 4:10 pm that day, they suddenly smelled a burnt smell and then saw smoke rising from the “kitchen manufacturing” restaurant on the 8th floor. At first, they thought it was only a small fire, so they did not care too much about it. However, they did not expect to hear the sirens coming downstairs with a fire truck. Immediately after the firefighters arrived at the scene, all the people above the 8th floor were evacuated. When many employees were evacuated by firefighters, they did not know that there was a fire alarm downstairs because they did not hear any alarm or broadcast about the fire. The reporter saw the employees of the company who had stayed in the lobby of the first floor all discuss the matter, and they were even shocked. According to on-site eyewitness accounts, after the three fire engines and an ambulance arrived at the scene, another fire engine and armed police vehicle arrived and the fire was quickly controlled.

When the reporter arrived at the 2nd floor of the Mayflower Plaza on the escalator, he began to smell a pungent burnt smell. Shops below the 8th floor were operating as usual. Customers on the 2nd floor did not even know what had happened. . The reporter then transferred to the elevator to reach the 8th floor and saw the door of the “kitchen manufacturing” restaurant on the 8th floor blocked. The staff told the reporter that the accident only saw heavy smoke and there was no open fire. The specific cause of the accident was still under investigation. The restaurant will not be open for the time being.

Official microblogging stove high-temperature oil fume tube smoldering

At 7 o'clock that night, Guangzhou Public Security released a message on its official microblog that at the time of 15:40 on the same day, 110 people in Guangzhou received a public alarm and said that they had stovepipes in a restaurant kitchen on the 8th floor of Mayflower Plaza in Zhongshan Wulu. Smoke rises inside. After receiving the report, 110 informed the Fire Brigade and the Yuexiu Branch to dispatch personnel to dispose of the goods, quickly evacuated people in the shopping mall, and used an indoor fire hydrant to spray water to the smoke pipe. After 20 minutes, all disposal was completed. According to the preliminary investigation on the spot, the accident was caused by the high temperature during the cooking of the kitchen stove in the restaurant, which caused smoldering in the oil smoke pipe and produced a large amount of smoke. There was no open fire and no casualties occurred.

The neighborhood questioned why the fire did not hear the alarm?

According to several eyewitnesses on the scene, at the time of the fire, although they saw smoke emerging from the window, they did not hear the alarm sound of the smoke alarm. Therefore, many people thought that it was only a trivial matter and did not do so. Good preparations for escape were not made until the firefighters came to the scene to evacuate them. Witnesses questioned the sounding of the Mayflower Square smoke alarm at the time. “Is there anything wrong with this alarm? I didn't hear the alarm. Thanks to this fire, it’s not very serious. How to do?"

The reporter saw from the map provided by netizens that there was indeed heavy smoke on the 8th floor and the top floor of Mayflower Plaza. Regarding the question of why people did not hear the alarm when a fire broke out at the time, the Mayflower Plaza staff stated that because the fire was relatively small and was limited to the area of ​​the 8th floor, it had not yet reached the alarm level. Later, when the firefighters arrived at the scene, they found that the smoke was relatively large. Therefore, for the sake of safety, all the people on the eighth floor were evacuated.

According to informed sources, at that time, the building was emitting heavy smoke but most people did not hear the alarm sound of the smoke alarm. This may be because the automatic alarm equipment in the control room was in a manual alarm state. Although the smoke alarm system sensed Smoke, but the alarm was only sent to the duty room. If you want to sound in a specific floor, you need to manually trigger on-duty personnel. In addition, because the building itself has exhaust equipment, if the person in charge starts the equipment at the beginning, the smoke can actually be eliminated more quickly.

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