So they used some kind of flammable cladding/insulation on the exterior of the building? What could go wrong? I wonder how many others are built that way of the thousands of buildings built in recent years. Anyway one remember this disaster in Shanghai http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2031985,00.html
The Shanghai apartment building had been retrofitted with polyurethane insulation on the exterior as part of a government energy efficiency program. I won’t forget this one... I had to travel there a few days later and saw what a disaster it was.
The Changsha fire doesn’t look to be much different except it wasn’t a retrofit...
That blackass smoke tells me the place was made with a whole lot of stuff that starts with “poly-—.”
Some months back the same thing happened to a high-rise apartment building, for the same reason: retrofitting with flammable materials.