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進入《TAIPEI TIMES 焦點》 Water Park Inferno: Video footage shows harrowing sequence of events at water park
People try to climb a railing to escape flames after an explosion at the Formosa Fun Coast park in Bali District, New Taipei City, on Saturday. Photo courtesy of the New Taipei City Fire Department
By Sean Lin / Staff reporter
Amid shock and confusion over the fire that broke out late on Saturday at the Formosa Fun Coast （八仙海岸） park in New Taipei City’s Bali District （八里）, footage reportedly taken by a woman who witnessed the incident gives a visceral account of how a techno party turned into a fiery inferno.
The Chinese-language Apple Daily on Saturday night posted footage taken by a woman surnamed Huang （黃）, who said she happened to be close to the scene of the fire.
The two-minute-long video showed people attending the “Color Play Asia” party dancing to techno music as a line of congo dancers moved through the crowd.
Moments later, colored powders were sprayed from the stage and quickly covered the revelers and an initial explosion occurred, igniting the powder, the footage showed.
A second, larger explosion followed almost immediately, creating an enormous blaze of light and sending flames across the dance floor, it showed.
People began screaming and running from the dance floor, with many falling and being trampled in the stampede, the footage showed.
A creative marketing team named Simpleinfo （圖文不符） yesterday posted information on Facebook to raise awareness about dust explosions, the purported cause of the fire.
According to the team, dust explosions are chain reactions set off by high-density dust ignited by a spark or other source of heat.
With enough oxygen, a cloud of dust can combust and cause an explosion, the team said.
The initial explosion at the park created a vacuum, which sucked in more dust, triggering a second, more powerful blast, it said.
As smaller dust particles are more likely to combust, some substances are more volatile than others, such as metal powder, flour and dye, the team said.
The chance of dust explosions increase in high-pressure environments, such as basements, where materials that are traditionally viewed as slow-burning, such as some types of wood, or inflammable, such as aluminum, can be volatile in powder form, it added.
Common heat sources that trigger dust explosions include static electricity, friction between dust particles, electric arcs sometimes associated with household appliances, flames and anything that is hot.
The team said people can help to prevent dust explosions by reducing dust, improving ventilation and monitoring heat sources.
According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, among the injured were four people from Hong Kong, one from Macau, two Chinese, two Japanese, one Malaysian, one Singaporean, one white male of unknown nationality and one unidentified person.
The four Hong Kongers are: Chan Hiu-yin （陳曉妍）, Lee Yee-lam （李宜霖）, Chau Wing-shan （周穎珊） and Mok Tsz-ching （莫子青）, all female.
The Hong Kong Immigration Department and the New Taipei City Department of Health said five Hong Kongers were injured in the incident, but no name was available for the fifth.
The injured Macanese is Yip Kai-tung （葉紀彤）. The two Chinese, also female, are: Chen Lingdan （陳靈丹） and Zhuang Chujun （莊楚君）.
The Singaporean was identified as Megan Loy, while the Malaysian woman is Lin Shili （林詩例）.
The white male of unknown nationality has been named as Alex Haas, while the person of unknown nationality was only identified as Fouri, but no gender was given.
The names of the two Japanese females were yet to be released.（Additional reporting by CNA）
新聞來源：TAIPEI TIMES
