Events turned surreal tonight as amidst all the fireworks that are going off all over our fair city, a fire appeared to break out at the iconic new (and not yet totally finished) CCTV Building. In fact, the fire occurred at the equally odd shaped... ...full story at Modern Lei Feng
from Modern Lei Feng on Mon, Feb 09 2009
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| 09 Feb 09 |
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TVCC building, China on fire, Beijing on Fire, 北京失火，中国失火 »
YouTube video It's seems like the fireworks have not only bring joy to the Chinese people on Lunar new year, but also bring down a whole building on fire.
Acording to the tradition of the Spring festival, people light fireworks to stop the bad luck of the past year, I... |
| 11 Aug 09 |
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Another CCTV fire, and protests over compensation » Danwei The new CCTV building There's been another fire at the new CCTV complex in Beijing's Chaoyang District. Unlike February's fire, a raging inferno sparked by an illegal fireworks display, yesterday's incident was minor and resulted in very little... |
| 10 Feb 09 |
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Fireworks to blame in CCTV fire » Danwei Xinhua reports on a mid-day press conference about last night's fire that gutted the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in the new CCTV complex: CCTV hired staff from a fireworks company to ignite several hundred large festive firecrackers in an open... |
| 14 Feb 09 |
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A Photo Play Of The CCTV FIre » ESWN A series of high-resolution photos of the fireworks that eventually set the CCTV building on fire. |
| 10 Feb 09 |
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China: Can Paper Wrap the Fire? » Global Voices Last night CCTV's new building's extension caught fire because of nearby fireworks celebrating the Chinese Lantern Festival (元宵). Blogger Anlei recorded the whole process with a series of photos. Even though the fire is an accident, the propag... |
| 09 Feb 09 |
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New CCTV complex on fire » Danwei The northern building of the new CCTV complex caught fire tonight at around 9:00. Photos on Xinhua; more video on Ku6. Also, via Shanghaiist, on Youtube. Tags: CCTV, fire This article is from Danwei.org |
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