2-26 Old Building Collapse in Pingxiang, Jiangxi

On February 26, 2016 at 14:18, a 6-story residential building collapsed on South Yuejin Road in Pingxiang City, Jiangxi. According to witnesses, the upper 3 floors of the building collapsed, involving 6 households. The store below was damaged and the casualties were unknown. Firefighters are using life detectors to rescue, 120 ambulance personnel have also rushed to the scene.

Nearby residents said that the incident building a total of six floors, the building has decades of age, the ground floor is the street stores, above the residential building, the collapse of the upper three floors, the following three floors structure intact.
According to eyewitnesses at the scene, the scene has been blocked, parked a large number of fire engines and public security vehicles, firefighters are rescuing people.
After 34 hours of effort, the accident search and rescue mission was completed at 1:00 a.m. that day, the total search and rescue of 14 people, including 6 dead and 1 injured, 7 people unharmed.

After the collapse event State Grid Jiangxi Province Electric Power Company Pingxiang Power Supply Branch was the first to rush to the scene to support the rescue work. To ensure rescue safety the company set up an emergency power supply working group to send rescue power supply staff to bring power generating vehicles mobile lighting and other equipment to provide lighting for 24-hour on-site rescue, our Jiangxi project center technicians arrived at the scene with the emergency team of Pingxiang Electric Power Company to cooperate with rescue lighting work.

2-26 Old Building Collapse in Pingxiang, Jiangxi

Collapsed building

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Lighting work with excavator

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Hurry to adjust and install the lamps before dark

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Hurry to adjust and install the lamps before dark

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Push the luminaire near the collapse point


Post time: Aug-13-2021