A heating pipe bursts in Zhengzhou on the 5th leading to 1 death and 1 injury (Photo source: Internet)
A heating pipe burst in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province on the 5th, triggering the collapse of the road as many parts of China were hit by an overwhelming cold wave. A 95-year-old female nurse driving an electric car at the time accidentally fell into the pit and died while passing nearby, and another person was injured. The ruptured heating pipe left 370,000 square meters of the area without heat supply.
Comprehensive mainland media reports, at about 10 a.m. on the 5th, a heating pipe burst in Zhengzhou City near the University North Road, University North overpass, and a large amount of hot water gushed out. The pipe burst triggered the subsidence of the road surface with an area of about 15 square meters. A young female nurse working at the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University fell into the pit while driving her electric bicycle with the intention of wading through the water.
The nurse was only rescued at around 1 a.m. the following day and showed no signs of life at that time. In addition, a citizen’s foot was scalded by hot water while passing by the ruptured pipe.
The relevant departments have been sent to the scene for repair, the site manager said the accident caused the local area of 370,000 square meters without heating supply, the earliest to the early morning of the 7th to restore, and people driving through the road involved to slow down, to prevent accidents from happening again.
The report said the burst heating pipe 450 mm in diameter, built in 1995, is located in the University Road, the day after the burst a lot of hot gas out, the road was once filled with smoke.
News triggered some netizens concern: “Zhengzhou is now minus 4 degrees ah, 370,000 square meters without heating supply, warm baby should grab empty, I hope it is repaired quickly”, “how to 2021 is still so many things, the big winter non-heating pipe burst, this is to get over with who? ” The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public, such as the heating system, the heating system, and the heating system.
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