宜兰员山乡建材行深夜大火：一家六口四人罹难，起火原因调查中
宜兰——据中央社报道，宜兰县员山乡温泉路一间屋龄约50年的建材行，10月3日晚间10时36分发生火警，火势在一栋三层楼建筑内迅速蔓延，一家六口中有四人不幸罹难，起火原因仍由消防火调人员调查中。员山乡位于宜兰县西部，这间建材行就在员山国中对面，是当地经营多年的老店。
消防局接报后赶抵现场，当时建筑物二楼已窜出火舌，抢救过程中一度传出爆炸声响。屋主余姓男子自行脱困逃出，其母由消防人员救出、送医时意识清楚；余妻施姓女子、两名子女与余父则未能逃出火场。据中视报道，罹难的余父高龄80岁。消防人员持续灌救，火势于10月4日凌晨1时12分受到控制，凌晨3时14分完全扑灭，随后进行残火处理，并在现场展开鉴识采证。
建材行内存放的各式建材与物料，多属易燃性质，使火势在老旧建筑内蔓延迅速。这栋三层楼建筑是店面与住家合一的老屋，余家一家人就住在店内生活空间，火警发生在深夜，留给住户的反应与逃生时间相当有限。确切起火点位置与事发经过，仍待消防局火调科与检警进一步调查厘清。这起发生在周末深夜、一家六口四人罹难的重大火警，再度引发地方对老旧住商混合建筑防火与夜间逃生动线的关注。
员山乡是宜兰县知名的温泉乡镇，温泉路一带是在地商家与住家混合的老街区。这户人家三代同堂，祖父母、屋主夫妇与两名子女共六口，平日与建材行比邻而居。从晚间接报到凌晨火势受控，历时约两个半小时，其间因店内物料助燃，扑救难度高；火场鉴识工作在火势扑灭后随即展开，以厘清这起重大火警的成因。
Four of a Family of Six Killed in Late-Night Fire at a Building-Materials Store in Yilan's Yuanshan Township
Yilan — A fire tore through a building-materials store on Wenquan Road in Yuanshan Township, Yilan County, late on October 3, killing four members of a family of six, the Central News Agency reported. The blaze was reported at 10:36 p.m. at the roughly 50-year-old, three-story building. Yuanshan lies in western Yilan County, and the store, across from Yuanshan Junior High School, had traded in the neighborhood for many years. The cause remains under investigation.
When firefighters arrived, flames were already bursting from the second floor, and explosions were heard during the operation. The owner, surnamed Yu, escaped on his own, and his mother was rescued conscious and taken to hospital. Yu's wife, surnamed Shih, their two children and his father did not survive; CTV reported that the father was 80 years old. Crews brought the fire under control at 1:12 a.m. on October 4 and extinguished it at 3:14 a.m., then stayed on for overhaul and forensic work at the scene.
The building materials and stock stored inside, much of it flammable, helped the fire spread quickly through the aging structure. The three-story building combined the store with the family's home, and the Yu family lived in the living quarters on the premises; with the fire starting late at night, the household had very little time to react and escape. Fire investigators and police are still working to pin down exactly where and how the blaze started. The weekend-night fire, which claimed four lives in one household, has renewed local attention on fire safety and nighttime escape routes in older buildings that combine homes and businesses.
Yuanshan is one of Yilan County's best-known hot-spring townships, and Wenquan Road — literally Hot Spring Road — runs through an older mixed neighborhood of shops and homes. Three generations lived under this roof: the grandparents, the owner and his wife, and their two children. Roughly two and a half hours elapsed between the late-night alarm and the fire being brought under control in the early hours, with the store's stock fueling the flames and complicating the fight; forensic work began as soon as the blaze was out, to establish how the fire started.
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