Khe Tre market fire in Hue: 335 stalls damaged, small traders choked on tears watching goods burned

Recently, a large fire broke out inside Khe Tre market. Receiving the news, the fire police dispatched several fire engines and dozens of soldiers to the scene to extinguish the fire.

According to Tuoi Tre newspaper source, on the morning of December 3, Mr. Le Thanh Ho - Vice Chairman of Nam Dong District People's Committee (Thua Thien Hue) - said that basic functional forces had controlled a large fire in Khe Tre market.

At 3:30 a.m., a fire suddenly broke out inside Khe Tre market. At this time, the market was almost empty, so the fire spread very quickly. When people living in the area near the market discovered a fire, the fire was very high, enveloping almost all the stalls inside the market.

Receiving the news, the fire police dispatched several fire engines and dozens of soldiers to the scene to extinguish the fire.

Citing sources from Thanh Nien newspaper, initially, authorities determined that the fire damaged more than 2,000 m² of Khe Tre market campus, of which more than 1,200 m² was burned at the main palace and more than 960 m² at the secondary palace, damaging more than 335 business stalls. Thankfully no loss of life.

Nam Dong district leaders said that professional forces are currently examining the scene; continue to mobilize forces to participate in the general cleanup of the fire scene and support small business households to overcome the consequences. Besides, continue damage statistics.

Because this is a large fire, especially goods inside the market have many flammable and explosive materials, it took firefighters many hours to control the fire. Outside the market, many small merchants watched helplessly as their goods were destroyed by fire.

Khe Tre Market is the largest market in the mountainous district of Nam Dong of Thua Thien Hue province with hundreds of small traders here. This market also regularly takes place activities to introduce cuisine of highlanders in Nam Dong district to tourists.

In a similar case, according to a source from VietNamNet, in the afternoon of 29/11, the Police Department of Fire Protection and Rescue of Hanoi City Police information, the unit has just rescued 4 workers trapped in a fire at a veterinary drug factory in Lien Phuong Industrial Cluster, Thuong Tin district.

Specifically, around 15:34 on the same day, the Hanoi Police Command Information Center received a report of a fire at the veterinary drug factory.

Receiving the information, the Command Information Center dispatched 4 fire engines of the Police Fire Protection and Rescue Team of Thuong Tin District Police and the 5th Area Fire and Rescue Team (Ho Chi Minh City Police Fire and Rescue Department) and officers, Soldiers arrived at the scene of fire fighting and rescue and rescue.

At the scene, the fire area is a factory with an area of about 500m2, steel frame structure, corrugated iron roof for production and preservation of veterinary drugs.

According to information from Capital Security, as soon as they reach the scene of the fire, through reconnaissance and information exploitation, the Fire Commander quickly assigns officers and soldiers to deploy formations to search for victims still trapped in the fire and deploy firefighting, prevent fire from spreading.

With the efforts to deploy fire fighting and rescue, until about 16:26 minutes on the same day, the fire was controlled by the Fire Protection and Rescue Police, thereby protecting and preventing the fire from spreading to the remaining 350m2 of the factory and neighboring factories, At the same time, rescue 3 victims and guide 1 person trapped in the fire to the outside safely, handing over to medical forces.

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