“We brought out mattresses and blankets as cushions for people to jump down, but many were panicked and they jumped regardless," she said. “We survived the tragedy but it breaks my heart that many of my neighbors couldn’t make it.”Īs the fire spread, people on higher floors got increasingly desperate and Pham Thu Hang, a pharmacist who lives across the street, said that many began to jump. “We’ve lost everything, but it doesn’t matter because the entire family escaped the fire,” she said. Huyen says her husband made it back inside, and then he and her mother-in-law were able to make it down a ladder a neighbor had propped up onto their balcony. She ran out with her 4-year-old son, husband and father-in-law, but her mother-in-law wasn't able to make it to the staircase in time before it filled with smoke. Nguyen Thi Thu Huyen told the AP that all five members of her family were sleeping on the first floor when they heard someone call out “fire.”īy that time, the smoke was already so dense they could only barely make out flames coming from the floor below them. Witnesses told The Associated Press that it appeared that an electrical switchboard caught fire on the ground floor, which was also used for the parking of around 80 motorbikes and bicycles, sending thick smoke billowing through the building. With the fire out, only incense burned Thursday morning outside the building at a makeshift shrine set up by friends and relatives to pay their respects to the dead. HANOI – Ten children were among the 56 people killed in a blaze in a Hanoi high-rise, police said Thursday, which some residents desperately tried to escape by jumping out of upper stories, according to witnesses.Īuthorities have still not released the cause of the fire, which broke out just before midnight Tuesday and wasn't extinguished until Wednesday morning in the nine-story apartment building in Vietnam's capital.
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