A fire hit a locked flat on the 4th floor of the Dao Duy Tu apartment building in District 10 in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday afternoon, burning all the furniture inside to ashes.
Luckily, there was no report of human casualties.
Hang, the owner of the flat No. 404, said she had locked the door to go outside.
After being notified by a neighbor, she rushed to home but found the fire had destroyed everything in her house.
Long, a neighbor, said when he was preparing to cook, he smelled something burning. He opened the window and saw many people shouting “fire” but he didn’t know where the fire broke out.
He then opened the main door and became frightened when finding a fire raging through the adjacent flat. He and other neighbors broke the flat’s glass window with a hammer.
They tried to subdue the fire through the broken window with a fire extinguisher and a faucet but failed.
Around 15 minutes later, local firefighters showed up. The blaze was put out soon after.
The police are investigating the cause of the fire.
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Dao Duy Tu apartment building. Photo: Tuoi Tre
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The fire scene. Photo: Tuoi Tre
