ENGLISH ASSIGNMENT

OLEH :
Idfi Adlina
XI MIA 7

SMAN 1 Padang
TAHUN PELAJARAN 2017/2018
 Fire at South China Karaoke Bar Kills 18, and Suspect Is
Arrested

BEIJING — A fire that tore through a karaoke bar in southern China in the early hours of
Tuesday killed 18 people, the police said, and a man was arrested on suspicion of arson hours
later.

A brief initial police account of the blaze in Qingyuan, a city in Guangdong Province, said
firefighters received an emergency call about 30 minutes past midnight.

By the time they extinguished the fire about 25 minutes later, the karaoke bar was gutted. In
addition to the 18 dead, the police said, five people rescued from the fire were hospitalized.

“According to a preliminary investigation, the blaze was arson,” the online statement from the
Qingyuan police said. “Currently, the public security authorities are stepping up their
investigation.”

Video footage shown by Chinese news outlets showed bystanders watching helplessly as intense
flames flared out of the three-story building containing the karaoke bar and climbed up its walls.

The Qingyuan police said they detained a suspect, a 32-year-old man named Liu Chunlu, at
10:50 a.m. Tuesday.

A reporter for CCTV, the state-run broadcaster, said onlinethat the fire had been started by a
person who had been in a quarrel beforehand. That report, which did not cite the source of the
account, said the person had used a motorbike to block the only entrance to the karaoke club,
then lit the fire at the door.

The China News Service, a state-run news agency, said that the police in Qingyuan — an
industrial and commercial center — had blocked off roads to catch the person responsible.

The police did not say how many of the dead were found inside the bar. Often karaoke bars in
China feature small rooms padded with carpet, and at least some of the dead may have been
trapped in such rooms.

The deadly fire is likely to prompt another round of calls from the Chinese government to tighten
up safety, especially in the crowded fringes of cities and industrial zones where fires often break
out.

After a fire roared through an apartment on the outskirts of Beijing in November, killing 19
people, the city intensified a program to expel migrant workers who live in such areas, displacing
hundreds of thousands of people.
ENGLISH ASSIGNMENT

OLEH :
Khairiya Alya Nafisa P
XI MIA 7

SMAN 1 Padang
TAHUN PELAJARAN 2017/2018
 Kauai Struggles With Severe Flooding, As More Rain Is In The
Forecast

The Hawaiian island of Kauai is struggling to recover from severe flooding caused by a
deluge last weekend — and bracing for still more rain forecast over the next few days.

A flash flood watch is in place for all of Hawaii. Rain is expected to begin again on
Thursday night.
"Even though widespread heavy rainfall is not expected on Kauai, given the high levels
of saturation from recent rainfall, any additional moderate rain falling for an extended
period of time could quickly result in flooding problems," the National Weather Service
notes.

On Saturday and Sunday, Kauai experienced a record-setting storm, with the NWS
describing the rate of rainfall as "unprecedented."

"A gauge in Hanalei measured more than 28 inches before it "stopped reporting," the
NWS says. That was a few fractions of an inch under the 24-hour rainfall record. But
heavy rain continued after the gauge went silent, causing the NWS to conclude "it it is
highly likely that this record was broken." Another rain gauge also hit a record.

Hawaii Gov. David Ige announced that damage was "very extensive" and that landslides
blocked roads into multiple communities.

He has directed the state's tax department to provide an extension on state filing
deadlines for flood victims. State lawmakers are also appropriating $100 million for relief
efforts on Kauai, as well as $25 million more for the rest of the state, The Associated
Press reports.
Evacuations are continuing. As of late Wednesday, according to Kauai Mayor Bernard
Carvalho Jr., more than 425 people had been evacuated by air.

Carvalho urged residents to pay attention to the flood watch in place for Thursday and
Friday.

"As we anticipate the possibility of heavy rains reaching our island once again, I'd like to
remind the public to remain vigilant and stay informed on any updates," he wrote.