The story of the Sun brothers surviving in the collapsed Tunghsing building in Taipei City thanks to a big old refrigerator aware that in the stricken areas many of the dead were crushed by falling heavy furniture and electrical appliances, or were trapped by overturned furniture which blocked their escape routes.
台北市東興大樓孫家兩兄弟靠著一台老舊大型冰箱存活下來的故事已廣為流傳，然而少為人知的是，在災區，許多罹難者根本一開始就被傾倒下來的重型傢具或電器壓傷、或是逃生路線被傾倒的傢具阻斷而求生無門。