Zhang 3 Feng’s World｜Good night, Beijing. Good night, people waiting for news

I remember when I was still working at the newspaper a few years ago, reporting on the heavy rain in Beijing, and we could still print the names of the victims in the newspaper.

The most heartbreaking thing about the fire in Fengtai District this time is that there is a huge blank space. The fire broke out at just after 12 noon, and the relevant departments issued a notice at just after 8 p.m., stating that 21 people died after failed rescue attempts.

This is a hospital, a place to heal and save lives, but it ultimately became a nightmare.

I believe the fire department made every effort to put out the fire, and perhaps there were heroic rescues—but because of this blank space, we also cannot know.

People need more details, not only how the fire department rescued, but also what happened in the hospital. Whether the hospital’s fire facilities are complete, whether the calls for help were responded to urgently—whether there was a situation where the floors were too high to be rescued.

A secondary, private hospital, in Beijing should be in a certain marginal area, does it also exist in a certain vacuum?

The media interviewed the families of patients hospitalized in the Changfeng Hospital, and they also learned about the incident from the notice at night. They contacted the hospital and were told to wait for news.

Now we have the world’s most powerful live streaming, this is an era of live streaming for all, and any little disturbance in a big city can make it to the trending searches.

Let’s take a look at our “City Trending Searches”, in Chengdu, a panda can be on the trending searches 10 times a month, and the rest includes high temperatures and thunder in spring.

A huge silence. This is not to say that taking videos is helpful for the rescue. Rescue is a professional matter, and people can trust the fire department.

However, it is still important to be able to see, hear, and feel what is happening, and people need to know more.

This is an era of waiting for official announcements. However, such official announcements are clearly not enough.

I watched a few videos at night, and I was very sad. I heard all kinds of sounds, but I couldn’t hear any of them clearly. It is said that drones made sounds, calling on everyone not to panic and wait for rescue.

These desperate, mixed voices are asking for help from the whole society, and you cannot remain indifferent to this. This waiting is a portrayal of our fate. Good night, Beijing, good night, people waiting for news.