Hung Ching-chuan, leader of the Taipei Fire Department's rescue team, says that today's apartment buildings are more dangerous than the old one-story houses because you have many more kitchens on the same piece of land. There are also many times the number of people living in the same space, which means that once something does happen, there is a correspondingly greater number of injuries and deaths.
台北市消防局信義分隊小隊長洪晴泉說，現在的公寓和以前的平房相比，同一個地點上多了許多間廚房，危險點大增，人又住得比平房多好幾倍，一出事，死傷相對增加。