Taichung, May 6 (CNA) Taichung prosecutors on Friday indicted a landlord and tenant who are believed to be responsible for the March 6 apartment complex fire that resulted in six deaths and six injured.
HAZARD: The building’s owner had been fined 24 times in two years, and the Environmental Protection Bureau had removed 1,120kg of garbage and recyclables from it/ Staff writer, with CNA
A fire in a Taichung apartment building on Sunday that left six people dead and six injured was complicated by clutter in stairwells that made firefighters’ jobs harder and could have boxed in those fleeing, the city’s fire bureau said yesterday.
The Taichung City Fire Bureau said it dispatched 85 people and 22 fire trucks and ambulances after receiving an emergency call at 4:29pm reporting a fire in a seven-story building in the city’s Central District (中區).
After bringing the blaze under control at 6:30pm, firefighters entered the building and found the bodies of six people on the third, fifth and seventh
An air quality monitoring station has been set up in Taichung to determine the composition of air pollutants in the city, researchers said on Sunday.
The Surface Air Pollution Research Station, which was established by Academia Sinica’s Research Center for Environmental Changes and the Taichung City Environmental Protection Bureau at a cost of NT$100 million (US$3.62 million), would collect and analyze air samples over the next four years, said Charles Chou (周崇光), CEO of the center’s Air Quality Research Center.
In a project led by Academia Sinica researchers, the station would take precise measurements of more than 100 types of
Taichung, June 10 (CNA) A fire that broke out at Taichung Power Plant Thursday morning has been put out, and the power supply will not be disrupted, the operator Taiwan Power Co. (Taipower) said.