Hundreds hospitalized after massive explosion in Chinese city of Tianjin

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MadBurgerMaker

#30
August 14, 2015, 09:39:04 AM
Another angle of the explosions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGcP84ouyAo

It goes from "Holy shit" to "HOLY SHIT" to "OKAY WE'RE LEAVING RIGHT NOW"

jimmy olsen

#31
August 15, 2015, 03:42:10 AM Last Edit: August 15, 2015, 03:44:49 AM by jimmy olsen
85 dead including 21 fire fighters.  :(

Family claim 25 short contract fire fighters are missing. Also new fires have erupted and the evacuation zone has epanded to 3km.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/tianjin-china-explosion-area-evacuated-over-sodium-cyanide-fears-n410371
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jimmy olsen

#32
August 15, 2015, 03:49:25 AM
Looks like a whole bunch of cops died as well.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/15/tianjin-blasts-police-order-mass-evacuations-amid-further-explosions
QuoteEarlier on Saturday anger over a lack of timely and accurate information about the blast spilled over at a press conference where the relatives of contract fire-fighters demanded to be heard.

According to an AP reporter at the media conference, media were locked inside as visibly upset relatives of the missing firefighters tried to force entry to the locked media conference room, yelling for more information about their lost loved ones.

"Why aren't the names of the contract fire-fighters on the public list of missing, but the regular fire-fighters are," one woman demanded to know according to another weibo post from the Southern People's Weekly.

"No one with family in the number-five team has received anything" the woman said, complaining about the paucity of information.

"They're only 18, 19 years old. The oldest is only 20 years old. They're only children. They're only youths!" the woman said.

In an apparent attempt to calm the woman, a police representative at the media conference said the deaths of police officers had also not been reported. "Not a single police officer death has been reported," the police officer said. "Everyone from our our whole police station is gone."

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Monoriu

#33
August 15, 2015, 04:07:35 AM
Rumour is that the first wave of responders consisted of 120 firefighters and armed police.  Only four of them got out alive.  That's only the first wave. 

Eddie Teach

#35
August 15, 2015, 05:26:15 AM
That picture reminds me of Sim City, all those neat blocks and then the disaster area.  :hmm:
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Monoriu

#36
August 15, 2015, 05:31:11 AM
People now speculate that one of the materials stored on the site is cyanide.  About 700-1,000 tons of cyanide has entered the ocean, the drainage system, and is travelling by air to nearby places. 

garbon

#37
August 15, 2015, 05:32:36 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on August 15, 2015, 05:26:15 AM
That picture reminds me of Sim City, all those neat blocks

What a dreadful answer to Manhattan.
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#39
August 15, 2015, 06:13:03 AM
Quote from: Monoriu on August 15, 2015, 05:31:11 AM
People now speculate that one of the materials stored on the site is cyanide.  About 700-1,000 tons of cyanide has entered the ocean, the drainage system, and is travelling by air to nearby places.
The Guardian says cyanide was confirmed.
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Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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Baron von Schtinkenbutt

#40
August 15, 2015, 09:13:36 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on August 15, 2015, 06:13:03 AM
Quote from: Monoriu on August 15, 2015, 05:31:11 AM
People now speculate that one of the materials stored on the site is cyanide.  About 700-1,000 tons of cyanide has entered the ocean, the drainage system, and is travelling by air to nearby places.
The Guardian says cyanide was confirmed.

Multiple outlets were reporting that the company was transporting sodium cyanide, amongst other chemicals.  It's one possible cause of the explosion, actually.  Sodium cyanide reacts with water to form hydrogen cyanide.  Hydrogen cyanide is highly flammable.  The firefighters could have caused a fuel-air explosion inside one of the warehouses by trying to fight the fire with water.

jimmy olsen

#41
August 17, 2015, 06:37:51 AM
114 dead, 70 missing (mostly firefighters ).

27 times the accepted limit of sodium cyanide in waste water.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/17/tianjin-explosions-fears-over-pollution-as-chinese-media-lambasts-officials
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Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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Monoriu

#42
August 17, 2015, 07:09:22 AM
Tianjin is famous for its pears  :ph34r:

jimmy olsen

#43
August 17, 2015, 08:34:19 AM
Quote from: Monoriu on August 17, 2015, 07:09:22 AM
Tianjin is famous for its pears  :ph34r:
I'm not sure if I see the connection. :unsure:
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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Monoriu

#44
August 17, 2015, 08:59:07 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on August 17, 2015, 08:34:19 AM
Quote from: Monoriu on August 17, 2015, 07:09:22 AM
Tianjin is famous for its pears  :ph34r:
I'm not sure if I see the connection. :unsure:

Next time you see pears from Tianjin for sale, maybe you should remember that they come from an area where about 700 tons of cyanide went into the ecosystem  ;)
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