Chapter 205: The Fire

"Damn, it's really on fire!" Chen Mingluo was shocked.

However, he was smart and knew that it was not appropriate to yell at this matter, otherwise there would be trouble if so many people in the theater were anxious and congested.

How did the Karamay fire come about? Wasn’t it because everyone squeezed people to waste time to escape? His own safety is the most important thing, so he stopped talking, pulled a girl with one hand and rushed towards the safety door.

"What's wrong?!" Xiao Xiao and Liu Qingmei were immersed in the plot of the movie. Who knew that Chen Mingluo would pull them up when he went crazy, and he was a little confused.

"Go away quickly, there is a fire here!" Chen Mingluo shouted loudly when he saw that the three of them had rushed to the safety gate.

Although there were not many audiences in the cinema, there were always three or four hundred people. When people shouted, they immediately noticed the fire behind them. Everyone stood up and looked around, but they were not very nervous. Instead, they felt a little novel. It was not a common thing for the cinema to catch fire. Some people even wondered if they were to watch and see how the firefighters put out the fire later.

In fact, the cinema is a flammable place. Taking the old municipal party committee cinema in Mingyang as an example, its large-span ceiling is made of wooden trusses nailed on steel beams and a layer of wooden boards nailed on them. In order to prevent moisture and rot, the wooden trusses and wooden boards were treated with chemical potions, which were dry and flammable, and there was also a layer of oil felt on them.

On the ceiling, there are flammable foam decorations and several wooden maintenance channels. In order to absorb sound, the back wall is made of chemically treated wood shaved quilts and brown wire. It can be said that the entire theater is a collection site for a large amount of flammable materials.

In theory, cinemas are both flammable and crowded places, and their fire safety regulations are subject to regulations and strict requirements. For example, the safety door of the cinema must be opened outwards but not inwards. The door cannot be locked during the show, but can only be kept. Once an emergency occurs, the audience can immediately open outwards and run out.

If the door is opened inward, it may be squeezed by the crowd and cannot be opened, making it impossible for people to escape.

There are also strict regulations on the location and width of the in-site passage, the number and width of the safety doors, the number and position of emergency lights, etc. to ensure that the audience can escape safely in an accident.

Cinemas must also implement fire prevention organizations and plans, so that they can only respond calmly once something happens. Judging from the previous fires in major cinemas in Mingyang City, not only are the times very few, but the audience also has no casualties. Judging from the results in this regard, their fire prevention software and hardware are both strong.

The cinema fires mostly caused the circuit to catch fire. Although there has not been any in Mingyang, it happened once in the Hongqi Cinema in Zhongyang City. It was the mid-1980s. It was the Mid-Autumn Festival. Before a movie at 8 o'clock in the evening, most employees were having a reunion dinner at home. The projectionist still went to the computer room for pre-screening inspection half an hour in advance according to the system.

During the test, a switch knife under the projection hole suddenly jumped into flames, igniting the sound-absorbing material brown wire inside. At that time, the autumn was high and the objects were dry, and the fire spread rapidly. After the projectionist found out, he immediately called for help. The fire truck also arrived at the scene quickly. The flames were extinguished before they even climbed up to the roof. The loss was not very large. Before the audience could enter the venue, there were no casualties.

But over the years, state-owned theaters have gradually become in a downturn. The one that Chen Mingluo and others watch are private, with a relatively large scale and good decoration industry, but they are much inferior in fire prevention and disaster prevention.

In fact, this is also a common problem. Last year, a fire in a cinema was caused by an incompletely extinguished cigarette butt left by the audience.

At that time, two retired employees in the cinema were on duty all night at night. After checking the various parts of the cinema seriously, they returned to the duty room to rest with confidence. As a result, the cigarette butt fell into the crack of the leather sofa seat, causing the filler in the seat to smolder. The smoldering area gradually became larger and larger, and finally became an open flame.

When the duty staff discovered it, it had already become a big fire. Although the hard work was effective, the loss was quite large, but there were no casualties.

Another time, there was a fire at Yangshuo Theater, which caused the illegal construction outside the wall.

The theater is located in a prime location and is used for movies all year round. In order to generate income, the homeowner built a row of bungalows outside the walls on both sides of the theater and rented them to vendors for business.

In order to cool down in summer, the theater specially used a blower to extract cold air from the underground air raid shelter and sent it into the site through plastic pipes laid along the exterior wall. This method is effective and saves money and has always been very popular.

As a result, one night, a shop selling wool in the illegal building caught fire. The flames broke the plastic pipe that sent cold air. The plastic pipe became a transverse chimney effect, bringing the fire into the theater.

There are two enclosed triangular spaces on both sides of the theater stage, which lead directly to the ceiling, just like two large chimneys, leading the flames introduced by the plastic pipes to the ceiling of the theater. The fire was out of control. When the firefighters arrived, the fire had already been on the roof. Not only was the fire in the yard, but there were also constant fire objects falling from the roof, which made the firefighters unable to enter at all and could only rescue the outside. In the end, they burned only four brick walls. They were really crying.

In fact, many modern entertainment venues are held privately. The boss only wants to make up the money, and often does not invest in fire-proof hardware and software according to regulations, which poses huge risks.

An explosion at a karaoke bar that year killed more than 30 people and injured hundreds of people. The reason was that the owner of the karaoke bar was also opening a coal mine and hid tons of explosives in the cellar of the karaoke bar. The fire detonated the explosives, and the consequences can be imagined.

Chen Mingluo was unreasonable and ran to the safety gate to yell and remind everyone. However, he didn't expect that everyone was calm and watched the fun there slowly. He could say that something happened, and we can't blame the guy for not reminding you.

"You make a fuss, the ending is coming when you watch the movie-" Xiao Xiao said with some complaint.

Although Liu Qingmei didn't say anything, Chen Mingluo could see that she was also very concerned about the ending of the movie.

"It's nothing. Just go back and put pirated discs for you. Anyway, Fairy Zixia is dead, Supreme Treasure follows Tang Seng to seek scriptures with all his heart, and the story is over." Chen Mingluo replied casually.

"You are too much!" Xiao Xiao condemned with some amusement, "Do you know, what affects your mood most when watching a movie is to tell others directly what the ending is. You are too bad!"

"I'm thinking about your safety. Why is this broken safety door locked?!" Chen Mingluo pushed the safety door and found that it couldn't be pushed. He couldn't help but feel very annoyed.

Actually, it is not surprising. Because cinemas are operated by privately, the most feared thing is that people evade tickets, so the access and exit passages that can be sealed are basically sealed. Due to insufficient staff, it is usually just a entrance and exit, and the security door is generally not used, so it is naturally sealed.

As he spoke, the fire there suddenly became fierce, and most of the ceilings of the cinema suddenly became raging. The many plastic and foam materials on the top began to emit a pungent smell, and they continued to melt and fell down. At this time, the people in the cinema could no longer calm down.

Especially the girls began to scream in horror, and everyone began to run around.

But the entrance and exit behind could no longer pass, and they were surrounded by flames, so they could only run towards the safety door, but the safety door was not open, and they were immediately panicked and didn't know what to do.

Chen Mingluo looked around and finally pointed to the backstage and said, "Run out of the backstage, there should be a channel there."

So he held Xiao Xiao with his left hand and Liu Qingmei with his right hand. He walked in two steps in three steps, threw away everyone and rushed behind the screen. When he arrived here, he found that there was a small door. Unfortunately, the small door here was also locked, and it was like a hidden lock.

"Fuck, who is this boss?! When your buddy goes out, you will definitely cause trouble for him! It's locked everywhere, isn't it a scam?!" Chen Mingluo was anxious at a glance.

But when I looked back, the area behind it was even larger, and it was completely a sea of ​​fire. Some people were crowing inside and cried, and some people were rushing to the safety door wildly. Unfortunately, the safety door was locked with iron chains from the outside, so where could it be opened in a short time?

Chen Mingluo thought that at this time, he could only write a word, and if he didn't knock the door open, he would be dead.

He shook the two girls away, took more than ten steps back, then suddenly accelerated and rushed towards the small door. The weight of a hundred kilograms and the speed of the sprint immediately shook the small door.

However, Chen Mingluo was not much better. His body was bounced back like a rolling gourd, and there was no place in his body that was not painful.

It seemed that he couldn't get away from it. When Chen Mingluo was thinking about it, he suddenly saw the energy transmitter bracelet on his wrist and suddenly had some thoughts in his mind.

It is said that Tesla used the coil to explode Tungus. So, can he fail if he wants to blow up a small door this time?

With this idea, Chen Mingluo thought about the experiments he had done in the past and felt confident. He adjusted the equipment on his wrist, activated all the spirit gathering array at home, and then gathered all the energy at one point, aiming at the lock on the small door.

Half a minute later, the fire had already burned not far from the screen. Everyone ran around in it and heard the sirens of the fire trucks coming from outside, but how could the fire be put out in a flash?

Under the gaze of the two girls, Chen Mingluo finally activated the long-distance energy transmitter. After a flash of light in front of him, the small gate was safe and sound.

"How come it's ineffective?!" Chen Mingluo was speechless about the result, but he was even more anxious. If he couldn't find a way out at this time, everyone would probably explain it here!

Just when the three of them were at a loss, the wall next to the small door suddenly made a crackling sound. Then a piece of wall about two feet square began to fall off. Then a round hole of the same size appeared on the entire wall. The bricks and other parts inside turned into ashes like peach crisps, and nothing was left.

"Escape passage! Everyone hurry up!" Chen Mingluo didn't care about explaining anything, pulled two girls, pushed them out, and then got out by himself.

After breathing the fresh and somewhat cold air outside, Chen Mingluo breathed a long sigh and finally escaped alive!

Xiao Xiao and Liu Qingmei were both frightened and sat on the ground to breathe.

Chen Mingluo looked at the small door and found that it would be easier to open from outside. So he kicked the door hard twice and finally kicked the secret lock away. After the small door opened, he shouted inside and asked everyone to escape from here.

After the panicked people heard the sound, they fled here one after another. In addition, the safety door was opened by firefighters at this time, and there were more escape passages. Everyone was panicking and they were still relatively chaotic and crowded. Although some people were calling for order outside, who could still pay attention to maintaining order at this time? Escape is the first priority!

Fortunately, some fire extinguishers in the theater were found. They used these things to temporarily resist the spread of the fire, otherwise the leather sofas and fabrics would have burned over long ago.

After Chen Mingluo and the other three rested outside for a while, they saw that five or six fire trucks of firefighters had begun to extinguish the fire with all their might. However, after the water vapor and the burning fire inside met, many irritating smells were produced, which was also very harmful to the human body.

After the people inside ran out one after another, they found that many people had more or less scars on their bodies, some of them had burns on their arms, faces and even hair, and there were many sparks on their clothes.

Because it is cold, many people wear down jackets. This thing catches fire when it sees sparks, making people feel embarrassed.

Some people were shouting their friends' names outside, while others were crying, but it was a mess anyway.

Chen Mingluo couldn't help but sigh, thinking that when I just shouted that I was on fire, you were all fine, and now that you have become such a virtue, who can you blame me?

However, he also knew that if such a big fire came, there might be casualties. I hope that no one would die. Otherwise, the fire would become a negative teaching material. After all, fires in public entertainment venues are always very serious.

"Let's go, let's go home first." Chen Mingluo helped two girls with disgrace and left this place of trouble.
Chapter completed!