I am very sorry everyone. I was supposed to show you around Shanghai for the second day this week. However, there was something urgent happened in my hometown for the past week. Let’s pray for that poor city, pray for those people have already gone to the heaven during that fire accident on November 15th.
I am not here to criticize our present Secretary-Yu but since he came to Shanghai no one likes him. We can’t vote to get our Secretary but waiting for our Chairman to order one for the city. No matter we like the Secretary or not we have to accept the order from the top leader of China.
As everyone knows, Shanghai has just finished the 2010 World EXPO, and our slogan is: Better city, better life. Yes, that was our old Secretary’s idea. People love our ex-Secretary because he did a lot of things for the people who live in Shanghai. He also made Shanghai people’s life away better than any other cities’ but Chairman Hu doesn’t like him because he belongs to the Party of our ex-Chairman Jiang. In another hand, as China is a community country we have to share our GDP to other cities. However, Secretary Chan wanted to keep them for Shanghai people. When he was on his position we got better city construction because he would use a large amount of money to build Shanghai, but donate the money to Party Centre Committee.
Look, here is our new Secretary Yu did. He allowed a construction under table. This big construction did have a permission form from the fire station but no one understood how they got it because what they did was absolutely unsafe. They use polyurethane foam to make the building become energy efficient building; however, that building was 28 floors high they have to use scaffolds to close all building in with a lot of moso bamboos and nylon net. As we can see, those three things are all inflammable, especially, the polyurethane foam. It took 5 hours to put down the fire for that building, which was unbelievable. People said that the first fire truck had arrived the place after 18 minutes they phoned the police office, which normally takes 6 minutes for them to arrive a fired place.
You also can’t believe that those government people asked those victims stay at a school gym and only give them some yoga carpet to sleep on. However, if it happened with Secretary Chan he would provide those victims at least a motel room to stay at once. Even those Secretary Yu did provide them a motel room but that was his secondary choice.
There are 58 people were dead in this accident, 22 of them were males, and 36 were females. There are also another 71 people are still in the hospital. And there were also 56 people missing during this accident. I have a big question mark for this “missing”. Where did they go? They went to the Mars?
I remembered when I was in school we have safety studies. But that was just an oral class about all kinds of accident. When they talk about fires they only tell us: “When you say fires don’t go into the fire because it is dangers; just run away, and then call the police.” However, they had never taught us where to go, and how to escape. In this big accident, lots of people went to the roof to wait for help. Therefore, no one noticed that smoke goes up. When helicopters came the smoke was already too heavy they couldn’t do anything. And those people who were on the roof were missing after the put down the fire. They might go downstairs but no one knows. They might also go to the other world with UFO. Unfortunately, there were still a family who lived on second floor were dead in this accident. Why? The reason was they had never tried to escape from the house; they were waiting for people to save them.
There were too many things unbelievable during this accident. The only thing I can do is to pray for them. And I hope everyone who read this article can pray for them too.
May the victims rest in peace, and the survivors be strong.
