There were about seven small explosions in the area on Saturday, according to a post on the micro-blog of CCTV. A fresh blaze ignited cars in a parking lot next to the blast site. The cause was not immediately clear. State media carried reports of other fires in the area.
Also, mention is made of rescued firefighter. Here is footage specifically of that claim...
Seems unlikely given the blasted remains surrounding the surviving fire fighter in that imagery. The shoe-less nearly naked survivor is lying betwixt smouldering scorched metal sheets with barely a scratch or visible burn on him. Perhaps he was knocked silly, stripped from his gear and wandered around until he collapsed.
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""...state media have reported. Several others are still missing. The blast occurred at a port warehouse owned by the 4-year-old Tianjin Ruihai International Logistics company. State-run media said that the facility held "dangerous materials," possibly including the chemical calcium carbide, which reacts violently to water.Yet when firefighters were called to the warehouse at 10:50 on Wednesday night, they attempted to douse a fire there with water cannons, according to several reports in Chinese media. Minutes later, two blasts lighted up the sky that together had the force of 53 Tomahawk cruise missiles exploding, state-run media reported.
Beijing has dispatched 200 hazardous-chemical specialists -- many of them in full protective suits and gas masks -- to investigate the cause of the blast.
One firefighter told the liberal newspaper Southern Weekend that his brigade was never warned against the use of water.
Propaganda authorities required local media outlets to use "only copy from Xinhua [news service] and authoritative departments and media," according to a censorship directive leaked to the news website China Digital Times. Officials said at a news conference Friday that even the names of the chemicals in the warehouse "cannot be determined at the moment," contradicting previous reports.
The Southern Weekend report has been taken offline."
Sodium cyanide "possibly stored" at Tianjin blast site
TIANJIN, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- Investigators looking into Wednesday's explosion in Tianjin believe sodium cyanide may have been stored at the site.
At a press conference Saturday morning, Gao Huaiyou, vice head of the Tianjin bureau of work safety, said that chemicals stored in the warehouse possibly include sodium cyanide, but further confirmation is needed. The containers were not open, and some were not even registered. Full story
Tianjin blasted warehouse on fire again
TIANJIN, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- The warehouse in Tianjin, which was destroyed by an explosion on Wednesday night, was on fire again Saturday morning.
Flames were seen at 11:40 a.m., and Xinhua reporters heard several blasts. Dense smoke could be seen at the site.Full story
Death toll rises to 85, residents evacuated from Tianjin blasts
TIANJIN, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- Death toll rose to 85 as of Friday night, including 21 firemen, from the massive warehouse explosions hitting north China's Tianjin City Wednesday night, the rescue headquarters said Saturday.
Meanwhile, 721 others were hospitalized, including 25 critically wounded and 33 in serious condition. Full story
Calcium carbide is toxic? The MSDS says it’s an irritant.
Maybe Chinese calcium carbide is full of melamine?
> officials have so far insisted that air and water quality levels are safe
did they crib the statement off the EPA’s Animas River press release?
Having spent many years on a hazmat team myself this incident makes me glad that I am now retired. However this article is a little over the top. The place was a chemical factory... of course there are going to be dangerous chemicals stored there and many of the products of combustion are harmful as well. And we are talking about the Chinese government... they have killed untold millions of their own citizens on purpose, they will lie about whatever they want whenever they feel like it. It is not really necessary to drab the Japanese into the story to convince us.
I used to work with sodium cyanide in the silver plating shop I had in Jacksonville in the 80s The stuff was a lot easier on the environment and safer to use than the acid method that is used now by the major companies but it was the sodium cyanide that got banned.
I don’t see any differences between what the Chicom government is saying and what fedzilla EPA is saying about their clusterfornication in Colorado.
fiber canopy [?] and emergency victims Massive Explosion in Tianjin , China
3:19 published August 15, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wco0cXhWwfc