China News Service, Baoding, August 18 (Reporter Lv Zihao) On the evening of the 17th, the People's Government of Gaoyang County, Baoding City, Hebei Province issued a notice saying that in the afternoon of the same day, a natural gas leak and deflagration occurred in a village in the county, resulting in 1 death and 4 injuries.
The report stated that at about 13:05 on August 17, 2021, a natural gas leak and deflagration occurred in Yuejiazuo Village, Jinhua Sub-district Office in the county.
The deflagration caused one person to be seriously injured, and the hospital died after the emergency rescue efforts failed.
After investigation, four people were injured in varying degrees and are doing all they can to treat them.
At present, the vital signs of the injured are stable and no life is in danger for the time being.
After the incident, the Gaoyang County Party Committee and the county government immediately launched an emergency response plan, and organized the street, emergency, fire, public security, health, housing and construction departments to rush to the scene to carry out rescue operations as soon as possible.
At the same time, a joint investigation team of the incident was established to actively carry out the aftermath work, and the cause of the incident is under investigation.
A two-story building was damaged.
Photo by Lu Zihao
On the afternoon of August 17, a reporter from Chinanews.com rushed to the scene of the incident and saw that the street where the incident occurred was cordoned off, two fire trucks were parked at the intersection, a two-story building on the side of the road was damaged, and a large number of small supermarkets on the first floor were scattered on the ground. Commodities, there are signs of burning on a large area in the building, and the color steel plate building in the courtyard collapsed.
According to Xue Yonggang, the second-level chief officer of the Gaoyang County Housing and Urban-Rural Construction Bureau, the gas pipeline is a rural coal-to-gas project in 2019 and is preparing to hire a third party for final acceptance and filing.
The Yuejiazuo Village project involved in this incident has entered the final stage, and the gas pipeline has been ventilated.
The color-steel building behind the building collapsed.
Photo by Lu Zihao
Zhang Zhuohui, director of the Gaoyang County Water Resources Bureau, said that the construction project at the deflagration site that day was the rural drinking water source replacement project in 2021. The general contractor of the construction design was Hebei Construction Group Co., Ltd., involving 156 villages. The project started in the second half of this year. .
It is reported that Yuejiazuo Village, Jinhua Sub-district Office, Gaoyang County has a resident population of 555 households with 2,300 people, located in the southeast of the county seat.
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