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作者：天蝎座的 在 海归商务 发贴, 来自【海归网】 http://www.haiguinet.com
BEIJING, Feb. 10 -- Old traditions may have clashed with the latest addition to Beijing's increasingly modern skyline, as the nearly finished Mandarin Oriental hotel caught fire Monday night after being showered with a burst of fireworks.
The cause of the high-rise blaze was unclear and there were no reported deaths, although chinanews.com, the Web site for a state-run news wire, said seven firefighters had been hospitalized, including two who were out of danger. The Web site for Phoenix TV quoted chinanews.com as saying 30 injured people had been saved, without elaborating.
Preliminary reports said the fire was caused by the illegal use of fireworks, and an investigation is underway, chinanews.com said. While Beijing authorities permitted the use of fireworks downtown this year, fireworks are not allowed inside buildings or on roofs or balconies.
Beijing's urban architecture, not previously widely celebrated, got a huge boost during last year's Olympic Games, which featured an iconic national stadium known as the Bird's Nest and an iridescent aquatic center known as the Water Cube. The Mandarin Oriental, which was designed by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, was immediately next to the new headquarters for state broadcaster CCTV: a modern and hulking pair of black glass towers joined at the top, also designed by Koolhaas.
The CCTV building also was not yet occupied and did not appear to be damaged, according to media reports. The 241-room hotel was to be the Mandarin Oriental's flagship property in China, according to the New China News Agency.
Fireworks are normally outlawed in downtown Beijing but were given a reprieve this year and allowed to be set off during the week celebrating the Lunar New Year. China's most important holiday began with ear-splitting bangs and whistling bursts of light on Jan. 25 and ended with Monday night's Lantern Festival.
Beijing party secretary Liu Qi and the capital's mayor, Guo Jinlong, went to the scene of the fire, which began about 8:30 p.m. and showered bystanders with ash and temporarily shut down a nearby subway line.
"The building was like an oven, red inside," said Hu Jing, a 26-year-old paralegal who works in a building opposite the CCTV tower and noticed it burning just after 8:30. "In less than twenty minutes, the fire had engulfed half the building. Within half an hour, all of it was on fire. I thought, there goes billions of dollars, just burning."
Hu said firefighters didn't seem to direct their hoses at the fire until the flames came down to ground level. At that point the water seemed too weak to fight the fire. "The steel outside was shining and red, like a pyramid. There were small explosions happening inside," Hu said. From his vantage point, Hu estimated more than 1,000 people had crowded on the street to watch the flames.
Researcher Zhang Jie contributed to this report.
作者：天蝎座的 在 海归商务 发贴, 来自【海归网】 http://www.haiguinet.com
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