Taipei Times
Date: Mar 01, 2020
By: Hsieh Chun-lin and William Hetherington  /  Staff reporter, with staff writer

The Control Yuan on Monday last week censured the Taoyuan City Government over eight fire-related deaths at a factory in the city two years ago.

The April 2018 blaze at Chin-Poon Industrial Co’s factory killed two Thai workers staying in a dorm at the facility and six firefighters who were attempting to rescue them.

Control Yuan members Gau Fehng-shian (高鳳仙) and Chang Jen-hsiang (章仁香) said that their investigation found that the Taoyuan Fire Department committed three serious errors during the rescue effort.

The three fire chiefs at the scene had not properly studied the factory floor plan and had not clarified uncertainties they had about the factory’s layout with company staff, they said.
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