Shanghaiist: Fire at Shanghai Center's Portman Ritz-Carlton?

May 9, 2008

Fire at Shanghai Center's Portman Ritz-Carlton?

Photo from erussel1984Via email from Shanghaiist reader Ned:

I just wanted to let you know there was a fire at approximately 3.45pm in the Shanghai Centre. I am not sure what floor it started on but was in the Portman Hotel. I work in the office tower and we had no warning until we saw smoke outside the windows.
I got to the lobby with my camera but the staff made me delete the photos I got. I have some from the outside on my Flickr page tagged with Shanghaiist.

It's difficult to tell the severity of the fire from Ned's three photos that escaped deletion. Any Shanghaiist readers have more information?

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Tags: fire, hotels, nanjing xi lu, news, photos, portman, portman ritz-carlton, ritz-carlton, shanghai, shanghai center, shanghai centre

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Comments (8) [rss]

[1] | 05/09/08 05:03PM

I hate it when people tell me I can't take photos in a public area (well not public, but open to the public)- ordering someone to delete photos after the event is another step.

Burn the place down I say! (not really)

[2] | 05/09/08 05:35PM

Here's a question - does anyone know where nanheyangrouchuan was at 3.45pm today?

[3] | 05/09/08 06:34PM

I saw him rubbing two sticks together outside City Shop, at the time I figured it was some kind of new fashion, but now...

[4] | 05/09/08 06:38PM

p.s. this is him right?

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/126/419491550_93224004a0_m.jpg

[5] | 05/10/08 12:04AM

I don't smoke.

[6] | 05/10/08 12:16AM

Why is this even remotely interesting to anyone?

[7] | 05/10/08 01:23AM

Ned should've ran when the staff said to delete the pics. Just pretend he's panicking, get out, offload the shots at a nearby net bar to flickr, then walk back in and delete the pics to the staff's delight saying, "sorry, but I get panicky around a fire after what happened to me in Desert Storm" or whatever. Remember that next time, Ned!

[8] | 05/10/08 07:37PM

download photorec or undelete and run it to get back deleted photos. The data is still on the flash memory device. The address on the flash device becomes available for new data to be rewritten to it. You can get the picture back assuming you have not taken lots of pictures to write over the deleted ones.

The undelete method got Reagan into trouble in the 1980s when the whitehouse made the mistake of deleting data without destroying the drives.