1993年2月14日午1时许,唐山市东矿区林西百货大楼一楼的家具部起火,紧接着引燃了家用电器部和楼内装修材料,火势迅速蔓延,浓烟烈火把近200名顾客和职工堵困在二、三楼上。据幸存者回忆,当时随着烟雾逐渐弥漫上升,楼上的人们均惊恐的乱跑和喊叫,出现头晕、心慌、呛咳、呼吸困难,眼睛睁不开,不少人吸入浓烟昏倒在地。没昏 February 14, 1993 at about 1 o’clock in the afternoon, Tangshan City, East Linhe Department Store Building Materials Department fire on the first floor, followed by igniting the Ministry of Home Appliances and interior decoration materials, the rapid spread of fire, smoke nearly 200 Clients of customers and employees stuck in the second and third floors. According to the survivors memories, as the smoke gradually increased at that time, upstairs people were frightened running and shouting, dizziness, palpitation, cough, difficulty breathing, eyes open, many people inhaled smoke collapsed in the ground . Did not faint