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The cause of the fire was soon clear. Most of the families in the building were vendors doing business in the three nearby markets. The first floor was used as a warehouse for commodities, most of which were made out of plastic.
“These residents make their living selling dried foods like fish, shrimps andjujubes,” a witness watching nearby told the local newspaper,Dangdai Business News. “They use electric fans to dry the commodities throughout the night.”
It appears this is how the fire started. But the investigation is going further. The investigators’ eyes are focusing now on the quality of the eight-story building.
Dai Jianping, vice chairman of Yongxing Group, a local property developer and the constructor of the building, arrived at the site on the morning of November 3. He insisted the reason for the collapse was the fire, not the quality of the building. “It?like the World Trade Center in New York. Who could imagine the twin towers would collapse??