As a result, its chairman Lin Wen-yuan tendered his resignation. Droughts always seek the company of fellow disasters, and on the morning of May 11 a forest fire started to burn on Mt. Li that lasted for seven days.
天乾物燥，禍不單行，五月十一日上午梨山發生森林大火，延燒近七天後，才在十七日上午熄滅。