Yahoo News 
Deadly Fire At Chinese Residential Home Kills 38 Pensioners
The tragic blaze at the privately-owned Kangleyuan Rest Home in Lushan County started in the early evening and destroyed a row of bungalows
A devastating fire which ripped through a residential care home killed 38 pensioners and injured six in China, it emerged today.
The tragic blaze at the privately-owned Kangleyuan Rest Home in Lushan County started in the early evening and destroyed a row of bungalows.
The properties were home to 51 elderly people and the fire took an hour before it could be extinguished. Hundreds of firefighters were involved in tackling the blaze.
Officials announcing details of the tragedy said that of the six injured, two were in a serious condition and were in hospital in the intensive care ward.
The fire left behind collapsed building structures, the frames of torched beds and wheelchairs scattered around the ash-strewn wreckage.
Chinese police have cordoned off the site as the cause of the inferno is investigated.
The 130-bed rest home divides its patients into three groups and accommodates them in separate sections: those who can care for themselves, who can partly care for themselves, and those who are completely dependent on care givers. The burned dorms housed the final group.
One pensioner who escaped the fire, Guo Xin, 78, said: 'I was on my bed at the time. Suddenly I saw a worker with the rest home run out of a room on fire and he shouted 'Run! Run!' to me, so I dashed out.'
Another survivor, Chen Runsheng, 80, said the reason the blaze had probably spread so far was because it lacked care givers.
He moved there two years ago and said: 'You can't find them at night.'
Zhao Yulan, 82, said she was rescued from her room, which she shared with 11 people. 'Only myself and one other roommate managed to get out,' she said.
China is facing grave challenges in caring for its rapidly aging population, which accounted for 15.5 percent of the total population by the end of 2014. This is expected to rise to 30 percent by 2050.
Latest figures show that China had some 32,000 registered homes for senior citizens by the end of March. It has only around 220,000 care givers in rest homes, while 10 million are needed.
