The fire in the city's Yancheng District was the second deadliest building fire in Taiwan after a blaze at the Weierkang Club in Taichung that killed 64 people in February 1995.

One day nigh wearie of the yrkesome way, From her vnhastie beast she did alight,

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

I was snotting all into my mouth and having to eat it, silently shuddering.