At more than 8 p.m. on December 4, citizens of Liuzhou, Guangxi Province, reported to reporters that someone had pulled dozens of packages of white powder and threw them at the temporary storage point for construction waste near Building 13 of Liugong Yihuacheng Community in Liuzhou City, and did not expect to spontaneously combust.
This is the scene of Mr. Wang, a security guard in the community, shooting the fire with his mobile phone.
He said that there were forty or fifty bags of white powder in total, and when they found the fire, they used water to extinguish it, but found it difficult to extinguish the fire.
Liuzhou City Liugong Yihuacheng Community Security Guard Mr. Wang: We can't handle it, and then I will call 110, call 119.
Thanks to the timely arrival of firefighters, the fire did not expand further. Mr. Wang said that these bags are written with "sodium metabisulfite" five big words, and sodium metabisulfite is a food additive with bleaching, antiseptic and antioxidant functions, sodium metabisulfite in the air, will decompose with strong stimulation of human respiratory tract and gastric mucosa sulfur dioxide, inhalation excess will cause certain harm to the human body. At more than 7 p.m., the staff of the Hazardous Chemical Department of the Emergency Management Bureau of Liunan District of Liuzhou City rushed to the scene.
Liuzhou Liunan District Emergency Management Bureau Crisis Section staff: If you are close for a long time, you will be poisoned. (So what do we do next?) Wait for us to contact a qualified company to come to the formal treatment, that is, stay away from the water source, try not to let it touch the water. Avoid chemical reactions, such as his (random discarding) has violated the criminal law, this kind of unreported, without permission to discard dangerous chemicals.
At 11 o'clock in the evening, dangerous chemical treatment professionals arrived and transported the sodium metabisulfite out of the underground parking lot of the community. So, who discards these sodium metabisulfites at construction waste storage sites? By retrieving the video of the underground parking lot, the property staff of the community found that a van and a van were suspected of being released. At about 4:15 p.m. on the same day, the two vehicles entered the underground parking lot of the community on the pretext of delivery, appeared in the temporary storage point of construction waste, and finally saw the security guards of the community extinguishing the fire, and then hurried out of the community.
Liuzhou City Liugong Yihuacheng Security Guard Mr. Wang: He was in a hurry to extinguish the fire because he didn't encounter this situation at that time, he didn't react, and when he wanted to stop it, he was already out.
Source: Guangxi News Channel