Chapter 191: Return to the Fire
March 23, T City, moderate rain.
Spring is the season of recovery of all things, but also a lot of people who go home for the New Year, start a new journey, farmers begin to sow the season, the spring rain in T city is slightly later than in the past, however, it is the right time, last night, in the T city of Anding Hospital burned the fire, although the fire brigade arrived at the scene in time, carried out intense firefighting work, the fire was extinguished, however, this Anding hospital in T city can not be called big, but can also be ranked in the top three, although the fire was extinguished, But there are still many small fires still burning around, and there are a lot of drugs containing alcohol in the hospital, which provided a lot of fuel for the fire under the burning of the fire, and the firefighting work is going on again and again, and with the arrival of a spring rain, it helps the fire brigade to do a great job.
At two o'clock in the morning, the fire that has always been repeated was finally extinguished, and all the patients and injured people in the hospital were sent to a nearby hospital for emergency treatment.
At seven o'clock in the morning of the 23rd, the wet people returned to the Public Security Bureau, in the conference room of the University, everyone's faces were very ugly, some were pale, some were coughing incessantly, and some were bowing their heads to drink water, although the fire in the hospital was extinguished, but the fire that plagued the hearts of every criminal policeman was not extinguished, but burned.
Mao Wenshi sat in the first place on the right side of the conference room, Xu Lang and they sat at the back, sitting in the main seat was Director Xie of the Public Security Bureau of T City, Director Xie was about the same age as Lu Ye, and he was about to retire, Director Xie sat on the main seat, not angry and arrogant, at first glance, he was an old man who had been in the officialdom for a long time, he looked around, looked at the people sitting in the conference room, looked at their tired faces, wet clothes that were still dripping, Director Xie's face eased a little.
A fire in Anding Hospital burned down the entire hospital, five people were burned to death at the scene, three more people died after being sent to the hospital, more than 30 people were seriously injured, and countless minor injuries were innumerable, this is the most serious fire in the history of T City, this matter, not only the General Public Security Bureau attaches great importance to it, the Provincial Public Security Department also attaches great importance to it, the mayor of T City, the secretary and others have called to inquire about this matter, and the opinions of all leaders are very unified, just one word, check.
What to look for? Investigate the cause of the fire, check the results of the investigation, check the accuracy of the number of casualties, and the superiors instructed that the case must be solved within a time limit, and the 322 arson case was the first serious case handled by T City in 2010.
In the early hours of the morning, the fire extinguishing work had ended, and the relevant leaders and relevant departments rushed to the hospital to check the specific situation of the injured people, in addition to the eight people who were lost, more than 30 people were seriously burned, including more than 20 patients suffering from mental illness, and the rest were doctors and nurses from Anding Hospital.
Among the eight people who died, among them was the female nurse with freckles on her face that Xu Lang saw during the day yesterday, in addition, there were two female patients, and the remaining five people were medical staff, and the fire department also found out the cause of the fire after the fire was extinguished, the cause of the fire was deliberately set on fire in the room, the first fire was in Yu Duyun's ward, the second fire was in Yu Duyun's attending doctor's office, and the third fire was in the hospital's archives, and the three fire points caught fire almost at the same time.
Yu Duiyun's ward is located on the second floor of the hospital, in the innermost part of all patient rooms, according to the inspection of the fire department, Yu Duyun's room was locked from the outside, Yu Duyun and the two patients who lived in the same ward with her did not escape, however, the police only found two charred corpses at the scene, because Yu Duyun's room was the first fire point, and the door was locked from the outside, so the people inside had no way to escape, and the body was burned very thoroughly, completely turned into a piece of coke, It is impossible to tell who is who, and as for whether there is Yu Duyun's body inside, it is still impossible to know.
The attending doctor of Yu Duyun is surnamed Hu, Dr. Hu was on duty in the hospital that night, the second fire started in his office, the door of Dr. Hu's office was also locked from the outside, and his office was on the fourth floor, there was no way to escape through the window, the fire brigade also found a charred corpse in Dr. Hu's office, the forensic doctor preliminarily determined that this was the body of a man, and the specific situation needed to be further investigated.
The most thoroughly burned and most serious place was the archives of Anding Hospital, where all the patients' information was burned, leaving not even the slightest clue to the police except for the ashes all over the ground.
Anding Hospital is a hospital for information and admission of mental patients, the patients who live here are people with mental illness, some of them are congenitally mentally ill, and some are acquired, in this fire, the most injured are these people, because they have brain problems, so when the fire started, they did not flee the scene at the first time, so they were seriously burned by the fire, and those medical staff who were seriously burned were burned by the fire in order to save these patients.
In addition to the occasional coughing sound in the office, there is also the sound of lighters lighting cigarettes, the office is full of smoke, most people are swallowing clouds and spitting fog, relying on cigarettes to relieve fatigue and drive away the cold, this fire came suddenly, so that everyone was caught off guard, but all the people involved in this case are very clear about one thing, that is, the fire is not an accident, but someone deliberately set it on fire.
First, the fire protection work of Anding Hospital has been very perfect, after all, the hospital is not another place, the hospital has a lot of medical alcohol, and there are many drugs containing alcohol and ether, once it encounters an open flame, it will cause a bigger fire, so in terms of fire protection, no matter which hospital will be foolproof.
Second, the three fire points, in addition to the archives, Yu Duyun's ward, or Dr. Hu's office, were all locked from the outside, which is obviously the scene of intentional homicide caused by someone deliberately.
Thirdly, at the three fire points, the fire brigade personnel found large amounts of alcohol and gasoline at the scene, which are accelerants, and once they encounter an open flame, they will only cause a larger fire.
After looking around, Director Xie coughed and attracted everyone's attention to him, then Director Xie said: "The 322 arson case has attracted great attention from the Provincial Public Security Department, and the leaders are very angry. How to check? Where to check? I believe that as an old comrade, the old criminal policeman, you should know in your heart, I will not point fingers, I only state one point, this matter must be investigated to the end, find the real culprit, find the truth, give the deceased, to the hospital, to the society a satisfactory explanation, the superior gave me a fifteen-day deadline to solve the case, in my place, there is no fifteen days, I give you seven days, if you can't solve the case in seven days, then, you will take off your police uniform and go home to farm, I will also go home to pick up my grandson. ”
When Director Xie said this, he looked at Mao Wenshi, Mao Wenshi nodded heavily, and said, "I promise to solve this case within seven days." ”
Director Xie nodded, then stood up, looked around, and said in a low voice, with a bit of pleading, "Thank you for your hard work." ”
After saying this, Director Xie left ahead of schedule, and he still has a lot to do now, such as comforting the families of the dead, as well as the injured patients and their families, and facing inquiries from the outside world, especially the media.
Everyone was silent after Director Xie left, and several of the female policemen had red eyes, which made Xu Lang and Ning Yanran look a little inexplicable, but now is not the time to ask about this.
After Director Xie left, Mao Wenshi immediately stood up and began to arrange work, revealing his vigorous and resolute style of handling cases, and even Xu Lang had to admire that at this critical moment, Mao Wenshi's concentration was good, his mind was calm, and he arranged the work and adjusted the accuracy of the direction of the investigation.
The memories are very simple, the aftermath of the casualties will be dealt with by the relevant departments, no need to worry about Mao Wenshi, the main job of the criminal police is to find clues as soon as possible, catch the suspect, Mao Wenshi divided everyone into three groups, the first team is the investigation team, investigate the day of the incident, who has been to this hospital, what suspicious things have happened in the hospital recently, looking for witnesses at the time of the incident, the second group is the forensic group, with the forensic doctor leading the autopsy of the eight deceased, as soon as possible to determine their identity, the third group, the investigation team led by Mao Wenshi, they want to return to the scene to find some clues left at the scene.
After the meeting, everyone was up and running.
Xu Lang and Ning Yanran are criminal police officers from S City, and they are not under the jurisdiction of the T City police, but now that such a big thing has happened, it is impossible for them to stand by and ignore it, and this matter also involves Yu Duyun, and Yu Duyun is the adoptive mother of the murdered Jin Enpei who Xu Lang and they are investigating, and they can't ignore it, so Xu Lang and they have temporarily become a member of the investigation team and returned to the fire scene with Mao Wenshi.
When the meeting was over, and the others left the conference room one after another, and after going about their own business, Mao Wenshi looked at Xu Lang and asked, "What do you think about this matter?" ”
Xu Lang thought for a while and said: "This is a typical case of arson, but for what purpose did the arsonist set the fire, whether it was revenge, negligence, or other purposes, further investigation is needed, and I think the scene may tell us part of the answer." ”
After Mao Wenshi heard Xu Lang's statement, he nodded, Xu Lang's thoughts coincided with his thoughts, so Xu Lang Ning Yanran and Mao Wenshi walked out of the conference room and went to the fire scene to investigate the work, as for Zhang Lei, he went to the countryside and joined Zhao Hua, there was such a big thing in T City, Mao Wenshi had to transfer the police officers who were still investigating Yu Hongxuan in the countryside back, after all, now the detection of the 322 arson case is the key.
On the way to the fire scene, Xu Lang was thinking about one thing, there were three people living in Yu Duyun's room, Yu Duyun and two female patients, it stands to reason that three charred corpses should be found at the scene, but the police only saw two charred corpses at the scene, so, where did the third person go? The third person who went missing, neither in the hospital's casualty list nor at the scene, so where did she go? Will the missing person be Yu Duyun? Xu Lang felt that it was very likely to be her, and Xu Lang also guessed that the fire in Anding Hospital was very likely to be set by Yu Duyun, of course, this was just Xu Lang's speculation, and there was no evidence that could support Xu Lang's speculation.
Mao Wenshi drove Xu Lang and Ning Yanran to the scene, the fire scene had already set up a cordon, far away, Xu Lang could see the dark building that had become a ruin, it was still dripping and raining outside, the police officers who were on duty were wearing raincoats, the ground was muddy, and the water flowing out was black, and it was mixed with black unknown substances.
Xu Lang and the others got out of the car with an umbrella, set off the cordon and entered the fire scene.
The hospital building was blackened by the fire, the original white walls were blackened, and some places collapsed, yesterday during the day, when Xu Lang and they came, the trees and lawns they saw were all unrecognizable at the moment, the trees that had been pulled out of the young leaves have completely died, the lawn that was still green and green has been scorched yellow, and the lawn has also been trampled by the staff beyond recognition, and there are footprints everywhere that are deep and shallow.
Xu Lang and the others first came to the first fire point, that is, Yu Duyun's room, the door had already been dismantled and discarded, in fact, even if it was not disassembled, as long as it was touched slightly, the door would collapse, and the door on the ground on the side had been burned and deformed, and the door frame was distorted, which shows how fierce the fire was at that time.
Xu Lang and the others walked into the scene wearing gloves, as for the foot covers, there is no need to wear them anymore, because the comrades of the fire brigade have entered the scene many times when they are extinguishing the fire, and even if there are footprints, they have been trampled on, and it is still a cement floor, and it is impossible to leave footprints after being washed by the flood.
Yu Duyun's room was no different from the rooms of other wards, there were three beds lined up in turn, and the futons and other things on the beds were long gone, Xu Lang only saw a lot of black flocculent things on the ground, which should have been burned cotton or something, and the beds where the bedding was placed had turned into a pile of ashes except for the steel part, leaving only three dazzling black shelves.
In addition to the bed, there is a separate bathroom in the room, and the bathroom is relatively intact, but the contents inside have also been destroyed by the fire, and nothing suspicious has been left.
When Xu Lang walked into the room, he saw that there was a humanoid white line on the floor of the room, which should be the location where the body of the first deceased appeared, and there was a second humanoid white line next to the window, which should be the location of the second deceased's body, and other than that, the location of the third deceased did not appear in the room.
The body has already been sent to the forensic office for a forensic autopsy, Xu Lang did not see it for the time being, Xu Lang came to the room after carefully bypassing the white line drawn by the police, looked around, the more he looked at Xu Lang, the more he felt that something was wrong, and the same was true for Mao Wenshi, both of them had their hands around their chests, frowning, and finally, Mao Wenshi looked at Xu Lang and asked, "Do you think something is wrong here?" ”
Xu Lang nodded and said, "You think so too?" ”
Mao Wenshi looked at Xu Lang and asked, "What do you think is wrong?" ”
Xu Lang didn't go around the bend either, and said bluntly: "Before the fire, the room was too clean, and it should have been cleaned up." ”
Although Ning Yanran also felt strange, she couldn't see these things like Xu Lang, so she asked curiously, "How can you tell that the room was cleaned up before the fire?" Maybe the firefighters cleaned up after they entered the fire scene? ”
Xu Lang looked at Ning Yanran with an idiot look, Mao Wenshi heard Ning Yanran's very layman's words, he was also amused when he had been straining his face, Mao Wenshi smiled and explained: "The situation you said is not impossible, in the past, after the fire, when the firefighters entered the scene to carry out rescue work, they would choose to do this in order to save people, but there is a premise, that is, when it is determined that there are still people alive inside, now you see." ”
As he spoke, Mao Wenshi pointed to the ground at the door and window, and continued: "However, these two corpses have already become charred corpses after the firefighters came in, since the person is dead, and there are other people alive in the fire, they will definitely choose to save people first to deal with the corpses." ”
After listening to Mao Wenshi's explanation, Ning Yanran blushed and became embarrassed, what Mao Wenshi said was a person's choice under normal circumstances, and she had not participated in firefighting work, so it was understandable not to know this.
As for Xu Lang saying that the room was too clean, Mao Wenshi found out when he came in, although the bed had not been moved, but the bedding and other things on the bed were stacked up and placed next to the window, because a large pile of ashes left behind after the burning of things appeared under the window, in addition, the curtains that should exist in the room and things such as a change of clothes were piled together, which was obviously done on purpose, as for who did it by the three people who originally lived here, it is still unknown, butAs long as the forensic doctor confirms the identity of the two bodies, then the identity of the missing third person will be known, and it is very likely that the person who did this will be that person.
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