Four killed in quarantine hotel blazeLIFESAVING EFFORT: The building in Changhua County burned for nine hours before the 166 deployed firefighters could put out the flames that had trapped 31 peopleBy Jonathan Chin / Staff writer, with CNAFour people on Wednesday were killed in a fire at a COVID-19 quarantine hotel in Changhua County, including a firefighter who died after their oxygen tank ran out while sheltering in a bathroom in the burning facility, the Changhua Fire Bureau said yesterday. The former department store, housing the hotel on the seventh to ninth floors, is considered a local landmark. Emergency response workers stand by with stretchers as firefighters work to extinguish a blaze at Chiaoyu Building in Changhua County on Wednesday. Those were 27 people under mandatory quarantine, two staying at the hotel while monitoring their health, as well as two hotel employees, it added. Tsai said that he had renovated the seventh to ninth floors to run a hotel with 74 rooms, in the past few months housing people under mandatory quarantine.

Source: Taipei Times July 01, 2021 15:56 UTC