The fire was not very big. The reason why it could be seen from such a distance was mainly because the night was so dark that even the slightest bit of fire would magnify it.
Lao Wang tried to stay calm and opened the sand table to take a look. He saw that a small building at the end of the Jimu Fang residential area was on fire. Fortunately, there were no residents inside, so there should be no casualties for the time being.
However, the building block house is flammable because its overall structure is made of wood. It is most afraid of fire. Once it starts burning, the fire will spread, which is fatal!
Lao Wang did not expect that the town would encounter a fire. Most houses in New Zealand are equipped with extremely sensitive and loud smoke alarms. In addition, there are alarms not only in independent houses. In fact, in order to prevent fire hazards, almost all places where human activities occur in New Zealand have fire alarms. When encountering a little smoke, a sound exceeding 100 decibels will sound. Stop until firefighters or professionals manually turn it off.
Therefore, fires are less common in this country, and house fires are often extinguished as soon as possible. In this way, not only did Lao Wang lack prevention experience, but even veteran inspectors like Hani ignored this aspect and did not purchase fire extinguisher trucks as early as possible.
Now the fire was only concentrated on the first floor of the small block house and was spreading to the second floor. Lao Wang was anxious to think of a solution quickly. He looked at the small building on the sand table that was not the size of his fist, and he had an idea in his mind.
While not many people were paying attention to the fire, he shrank the sand table and turned the building into the size of a toy. He reached out and patted the small building, smashing the two-story building to pieces on the ground.
There was a water pipe installed in the small building. The building was broken, the water pipe was broken, and high-pressure water spurted out.
He smashed the building with a slap, which actually suppressed the fire. When the water in the water pipe spurted out, the remaining flames were also under control.
The plunderers drove over as fast as they could. When they arrived, many people in the town came to help put out the fire, including Uncle Bing and his son, the Anderson family, Jin Zhongtai and his employees, and of course Eva and others. Fifty or sixty people gathered around the burning building.
The plunderers stopped. Atulu and Uncle Bing were evacuating the crowd of onlookers. When they saw the old queen and Uncle Bing giving him a wink, Old Wang knew better and walked aside and asked, "What's wrong?"
Uncle Bing showed him something that looked like an igniter and said: "The fire was controlled early. When I arrived, I searched the small building and found this behind the wooden door. It was a timer igniter. It was in the air. There is a smell of burning diesel, which means someone committed arson."
Lao Wang looked gloomy and whispered: "Damn, are you from the gang?"
Uncle Bing nodded and said: "There is no better explanation, but who did it? I didn't find any clues."
Then Eva brought the shocked writer Hill to find him. The first person to find the fire was the latter. He said: "You know the mayor, I am a writer. I am often more inspired in the dead of night. I Slept late.”
"I know, and how did you find out?"
"I didn't realize it was my dog Rika. She was playing in the yard when she started barking all of a sudden. I was worried about disturbing the neighbors, so I came out to stop it and wanted to stop it. Then I saw the flames burning behind the residential area. ." Hill suddenly became anxious when he said this, "Hey, Rika, where is my Rika?"
Lao Wang asked Atulu to take the strong man to find him a dog, and said: "Don't worry, man, Rika will not be lost in such a small area. I want to know if you heard the smoke alarm when there was a fire. the sound of?"
"No, definitely not!" Hill said with certainty, "I saw the flames, and then I quickly went to Eva and asked her to inform you, but she beat me."
At this point, the writer felt aggrieved.
Eva apologized: "Sorry, Hill, I thought you were crazy and came to play hooligans. You were not wearing a shirt at the time, so I... I hope I didn't hurt you. Oh, by the way, Wang, I called the fire alarm number in Lewistown. , they have the fire brigade, they should be here soon."
He nodded to show that he understood, and asked Eva to take the little Loli back to sleep first, while he took Uncle Bing and others to the small building that he had scattered and looked at it carefully.
Uncle Bing lamented: "Fortunately, the construction quality of this damn block house was not up to standard. The house collapsed just after the first floor started burning, which happened to suppress the flames. Otherwise, it would have burned completely. We don't have a fire truck, which would be troublesome." "
Bowen and others also nodded in fear. There are more than forty small buildings in this block house residential area. Lao Wang originally spent five million New Zealand dollars to build this residential area. Now the occupancy rate is close to half. If the entire building burns Come on, what is lost is not only money, but also people's hearts.
Lao Wang looked ugly. If he hadn't made the decision to knock down the building, the fire might have spread.
Therefore, no matter who lit the fire, as long as he can catch the murderer, he will definitely not let them go!
The small building now looks miserable. Its main body has been smashed into pieces. The wood on the first floor has been burned to char and smells like fire. There is water spraying, as if it was burned into ruins.
Lao Wang asked his men to search for the smoke alarm and said: "When the fire started, the smoke alarm didn't sound. Someone must have damaged it. Go find it and see if you can find any traces on it."
A resident shook his head and said: "Mayor, I don't think someone destroyed the smoke alarm, but that its battery is out of power. Because my alarm ran out of power two days ago, and the battery was just replaced."
This is possible, the battery life of smoke alarms is about half a year to a year, and these buildings have been built for more than half a year.
Normally, the alarm will sound a warning sound when the battery is low, but no one lives in the building where the fire occurred. Even if there is a warning sound, no one will hear it, and no one will replace the battery.
The fire truck from Lewis Town came over from behind. Thank you that the American Road is almost completed. This road directly connects Sunset Town and Lewis Town. The two sides are only more than 20 kilometers apart, which is closer than the Ao Cheng. In this case Distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors.
Along with the fire truck was the town's Sheriff Upton Roosevelt. Lao Wang shook hands with him and thanked him: "Thank you very much for your concern, Sheriff Roosevelt. We are fine here. Someone set the fire, but God bless, the building will collapse." The fire is out.”
Roosevelt nodded and said: "Then you don't need to thank me, just thank God for blessing. To be honest, my rescue was a bit slow. I hope you can understand. After all, these guys under me are not professional fire brigade."
At the location where the alarm was installed, Uncle Bing found the failed alarm. It was indeed not damaged, but the battery was dead. The idea of looking for fingerprints from it was shattered.
Looking at the timer igniter, Lao Wang asked everyone if they could find out the time. Uncle Bing shook his head and said that the timer of the igniter was burned out and it would be difficult to find out.
In this way, it seems that all clues are broken. (.)