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CCTV9英语新闻:香格里拉大火原因正在调查中

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By CCTV reporter Hu Chao

A fire that started on Saturday morning, destroyed a large part of an ancient town in southwest China's Yunnan Province. Dukezong town in Shangri-la County is known for its well-preserved Tibetan dwellings1, and is a popular tourist destination. It suffered significant damage in the blaze. While the cause of the fire is still being investigated, it appears that local fire fighting and fire prevention measures weren't up to the mark.

This thousand-year-old ancient town was nothing but a blaze for hours. History of a thousand years, burnt to a cinder2. A small hotel named Ruyi is located at the east of the ancient town. This is exactly where the fire firstly broke out.

While the cause of the fire is still under investigation3, local authorities estimate that almost two thirds of Dukezong town has been destroyed.

It's been nearly thirty hours since the fire was put out on Saturday. But as I enter this burned out building I can still feel warm in here. And when you touch this wall, it feels warm.

Many are asking why the blaze continued for as long as nine hours.

Local officials say the reason is the wooden structures of most houses here and the tight spaces in between them. This also made fighting the fire even harder. The dry climate and strong winds also contributed.

However, many locals are saying they found most fire hydrants in the ancient town had no water at all when the fire broke out.

"After the fire broke out, I used pliers and a hammer to open the nearest four wooden boxes, which house the fire hydrants. But all the four fire hydrants turned out to have no water or even a connection to a water pipe," said Duan Genyuan, a witness.

Local authorities said there are 122 fire hydrants in the ancient town. They say the sub-zero temperatures might have led to some of them freezing.

"Since December last year, the town has been experiencing very low temperatures for a number of days. Some fire hydrants might have frozen over that time," said Long Jiaping from the fire department of Dukezong Management Commitee.

But the question is, why no one noticed and why wasn't any anti-freeze used?

As of late Sunday, neither the fire department of Shangri-la county or that of the municipal and provincial4 administration had any response to the efficiency of the fire facilities in this ancient town.


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1 dwellings aa496e58d8528ad0edee827cf0b9b095     
n.住处,处所( dwelling的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • The development will consist of 66 dwellings and a number of offices. 新建楼区将由66栋住房和一些办公用房组成。
  • The hovels which passed for dwellings are being pulled down. 过去用作住室的陋屋正在被拆除。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 cinder xqhzt     
n.余烬,矿渣
参考例句:
  • The new technology for the preparation of superfine ferric oxide from pyrite cinder is studied.研究了用硫铁矿烧渣为原料,制取超细氧化铁红的新工艺。
  • The cinder contains useful iron,down from producing sulphuric acid by contact process.接触法制硫酸的矿渣中含有铁矿。
3 investigation MRKzq     
n.调查,调查研究
参考例句:
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
4 provincial Nt8ye     
adj.省的,地方的;n.外省人,乡下人
参考例句:
  • City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。
  • Two leading cadres came down from the provincial capital yesterday.昨天从省里下来了两位领导干部。
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