Ma Ying-jeou, Taichung fires negligent civil servants painful punishment

ALA PUB Taichung nightclub fires die with twelve injured, Luo Zhiqiang presidential spokesman said yesterday that President Ma Ying-jeou on the matter “very distressed”, Office of the President and the Executive Yuan are stressed, “if civil servants were suspected of dereliction of duty, but also to identify those responsible punishable by law “; Taichung City Deputy Mayor Shyu that” the devil in the details “, the city government should face the responsibility to review the implementation of the safety check, the central review of the safety regulations should absolutely not allow the tragedy to happen again.

Luo Zhiqiang, said President Ma from the major public security accidents in this “very sad” that mourning for the deceased, also wished the injured speedy recovery for the people, as soon as the central and Difangzhengfu must identify the cause and responsibility to implement the fire safety inspection for the people’s lives and property checks.

Luo Zhiqiang that have been made President Ma Taichung Mayor Jason Hu and Premier Wu Den-yih, the Executive Yuan instructed the recent frequent fire accidents, the fire must comprehensively strengthen security requirements Defangzhengfu; Ministry of the Interior is required to review whether the inadequacies of existing legislation, in particular, public places must not have been lax.

Shyu said that the central regulatory inspection program is perfect, it should be reviewed, including whether the fire cotton interior noise? Flameproof part of it, including the ceiling and so on? These details should be relevant to the safety of amending the law.

Shyu also found that ALA PUB slow down ladder in the shop right Fanghuo Xiang, slow down ladder below the stacked piles of wood and other waste, and Fang Huoxiang occupied two-thirds of the building next door. He pointed Fanghuo Xiang said, “there are ways to slow down escape ladder? We have implemented security checks it?”

Huang Chongdian Taichung Urban Development Secretary pointed out that there is a gray area regulations, “Act only regulates construction and decoration materials, the foam are decorations, not restriction of range!” Let the inspectors more difficult, not to force prohibited.

Residential areas, clubs, PUB, fear of loud noise to wake a neighbor triggered protests, mostly in the ceiling, walls, laying a large number of sound-absorbing foam. Shyu yesterday to fire investigation, was informed that the fire point of doubt in the ceiling, the foam used for sound insulation, anti-heavy casualties as the culprit.

Fire law norms, the ground floor of a layer of more than ten buildings, underground buildings and places designated by the central competent authority should be used with flameproof mark the carpets, curtains, curtain and so on, the ceiling has not been included in the specification.

Executive Yuan spokesman Jiang Qichen, said Wu Den-yih has asked relevant departments to be completed as quickly as the fire safety facilities, public places, inventory, will present the most stringent fire and the attitude of medical building codes, so the incident does not recur.