No VIP treatment The Welcome Restaurant fire in Taichung that took the lives of over 60 reminded Taipei City officials that the city has had its own string of major fires at saunas, KTVs and elsewhere. Taipei's rate of death and injury from fire is 157 times higher than New York's and 60 times higher than London's.
台中衛爾康餐廳大火燒死了六十幾人，喚醒了台北人的回憶，近幾年台北包括三溫暖、KTV 不斷傳出大火，造成的嚴重傷亡比率，是紐約市的一百五十七倍，倫敦的六十倍。