2021 Kaohsiung building fire

2021 Kaohsiung building fire
Native name 高雄城中城大樓大火
Date14 October 2021
Time02:54 NST (UTC+8)
Location
Coordinates22°37′43″N 120°17′07″E / 22.62861°N 120.28528°E / 22.62861; 120.28528
TypeFire
Deaths46
Non-fatal injuries41

In the early morning hours of 14 October 2021, at 02:54 NST (UTC+8), a fire broke out in a 13-storey building at Fubei Road in Yancheng District, Kaohsiung, a city in southwestern Taiwan. At least 46 people were killed, and 41 others were injured. The fire was extinguished after about four and a half hours. The cause of the fire is under investigation, although piles of debris left around the building may have complicated rescue efforts and helped fuel the fire.

It was the deadliest fire in the city's history, and the deadliest building fire in Taiwan since 1995, when a karaoke bar in Taichung in central Taiwan caught fire, killing 64 people and overall the third-deadliest fire in the history of Taiwan.