Folks, the local fire department responded to a fire. The were killed in the process.
Yes...it was not the kind of fire they though...but for the Chinese people, these guys were heroes just like our own would be considered if lost in the line of duty.
The Chinese Communist government is not our friend and ultimately it needs to come down. I except, as more and more Chinese people acquire possessions of their own and a decent standard of living, it will be they who bring about the change.
This is about a tragedy...just like any we have faced.
Do we run down or attack the 911 fire fighters who lost their lives trying to save others? No, of course not.
IMHO, people should not do so here either.
I am sure some “party bosses.” in Tianjin are going to get the axe. No doubt about that. But when a fire breaks out at midnight, you send in the first responders. In this case as they tried to address it on the scene...those explosions killed a bunch of them. Sad day for their fire fighters. may they RIP.
See my Flickr Photo Album about the Tianjin Disaster:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeff_head/albums/72157654841719103
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt