Posted on 03/07/2020 12:23:33 PM PST by SeekAndFind
About 30 people remained trapped early on Sunday after a five-storey hotel being used for coronavirus quarantine collapsed in the southeast Chinese port city of Quanzhou, state media said.
About four hours after the collapse, the Quanzhou municipality said 38 of the 70 or so people who had been in the Quanzhou Xinjia Hotel had been rescued.
A video stream posted by the government-backed Beijing News site showed rescue workers in orange overalls clambering over rubble and twisted steelwork carrying people towards ambulances.
The hotel collapsed at about 7:30 p.m. (1130 GMT) on Saturday evening.
“I was at a gas station and heard a loud noise. I looked up and the whole building collapsed. Dust was everywhere, and glass fragments were flying around,” a witness said in a video posted on the Miaopai streaming app.
“I was so terrified that my hands and legs were shivering.”
A woman named only by her surname, Chen, told the Beijing News website that relatives including her sister had been under quarantine at the hotel as prescribed by local regulations after returning from Hubei province, where the coronavirus emerged.
She said they had been scheduled to leave soon after completing their 14 days of isolation.
“I can’t contact them, they’re not answering their phones, she said.
“I’m under quarantine too (at another hotel) and I’m very worried, I don’t know what to do. They were healthy, they took their temperatures every day, and the tests showed that everything was normal.”
The municipality said 36 emergency rescue vehicles such as cranes and excavators, 67 firefighting vehicles, 15 ambulances, and more than 700 firefighters, medical and other rescue workers were at the scene as the operation stretched into the night.
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The Mongolian Yuan Dynasty used this port city as a staging point for two failed invasion of Japan (both failed because the invading fleet were destroyed by typhoons, leading the Japanese to call the typhoons -- KAMIKAZE, Divine Wind ).
We know
They are very much worse off now, but they were already trapped...
...just sayin’
Oh. Five STORY hotel. That makes more sense.
Well, I guess this is the communist/atheist method of curtailing a virus.
I didn’t know.
Hi.
I understand that things collapse. Bridges, buildings, dams etc fail.
Why does it happen in China more than anywhere else?
5.56mm
Did anyone hear noise from explosives going off before the building collapsed? Just wondering if it was programmed demolition.
RE: Why does it happen in China more than anywhere else?
My guess — CORRUPTION.
In order to save money ( or maybe pocket money ), they use inferior materials or diminish the materials necessary to build things and build them quickly.
Take note — this building collapsed EVEN THOUGH there was no earthquake.
“Hi.
I understand that things collapse. Bridges, buildings, dams etc fail.
Why does it happen in China more than anywhere else?
5.56mm”
All governments are corrupt, but some are more ‘equal’ than others.
It is quite a coincidence that of all the buildings in the area, this one collapsed. Not that I think it was collapsed on purpose, but that it had been sitting vacant due to structural problems, for example.
Just this week some socialist or other, possibly Sanders, praised China for producing housing for future communities while the US struggles to house the current population. Now we know how they do it, by ignoring basic safety codes.
The Chinese don’t have building codes.
Another day, another collapsed Chinese building ...
every thing from China sucks poor workmanship, cheap, materials bad working conditions.
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