The city of Dehui, in China’s northeast—the region of the world known as Manchuria—has, until now, benefited from the country’s expanding appetites. The slaughterhouse industry has surged to keep up with a population of urbanizing consumers. In 2011, the city produced a quarter of a billion chickens.
But just after dawn on Monday, Dehui’s Mishazi plant, which belongs to Jilin Baoyuanfeng Poultry, caught fire. At the time, some three hundred people were inside. Exactly what happened next will take a while to sort out, but the significant facts are already clear: by Monday afternoon, a hundred and nineteen people were dead, and scores of others were injured—the deadliest fire in China in thirteen years, and the worst factory blaze that anyone can remember.
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