"I imagine if it was as large an explosion (2.9?) as they are saying, there will be more deaths."-PghBaldy
Early reports from our activist contacts in China are saying:
The explosion scene is at the Dongjiang bonded Harbor area near the seventh gate of a hazardous chemicals, warehouse.
People need to close all Windows and doors nearby, is likely to have secondary damage in the form of toxic gasses. via CNN video at YouTube
TIANJIN, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Two firefighters were "out of contact" and another four injured as of 3:00 a.m. Thursday after an explosion ripped through a warehouse in north China's Tianjin City, according to police authority.
According to the Sina Weibo post of the firefighting bureau under the Ministry of Public Security, The Tianjin firebrigade sent 12 teams after receiving fire report from Ruihai warehouse at the Binhai New Area at 10:50 p.m. Wednesday, which stores dangerous and chemical goods. An explosion occurred at the site at 11:30 p.m. The brigade then sent another nine teams and 35 fire engines as reinforecement.
The shockwaves were felt kilometers away, with some residents claiming their window glass and fish tanks shattered. People in neighborhoods nearby said flames lit up the sky and the blasts with big bang sent smoke and dust dozens of meters into the sky.
Lu Yun, head of the nearby Taida Hospital, said they have received more than 50 wounded people, and more are coming. The injuries were mainly from broken glass or stones. Some of the injuries are serious. The rescue operation is still going on.
Also mentioned in another post about this horrific explosion...there have been quite a few recent unexplained events in China - Uighurs?
BEIJING — At least 68 people were killed Saturday morning when a blast tore through a metal products factory in China’s eastern Jiangsu Province, state-run news media reported. According to the national broadcaster CCTV, 187 others were injured in the ...via NYTimes · ByAndrew Jacobs · 8/2/2014
At least 31 people, mostly students, were injured today when a gas explosion ripped through a six storey building in a Chinese university. The explosion took place in a dormitory at China's northwest Lanzhou University in Lanzhou, capital of Gansu Province ...via Deccan Herald 7/20/2015
The report said the blast, late on Monday evening, killed a suspect named as 33-year-old unemployed villager Xie Xingtang. The Xinhua report did not mention a reason for the attack. Photos circulating on Chinese microblog Sina Weibo showed police cordons ...via Reuters · By Michael Perry andAdam Jourdan · 7/21/2015
BEIJING (AP) — A warehouse containing fireworks exploded in northern China, killing 15 people, a local authority said Monday. The explosion Sunday morning happened in Ningjin county in Hebei province, which borders Beijing, and also left two other people ...via bigstory.ap.org · 7/12/2015
An April 6 explosion at a paraxylene plant in Zhangzhou, Fujian province, is the second safety incident at the highly controversial PX facility in China. Six people were injured in the blast, which, according to local media, started around 7 p.m. local ...via Plastics News · 4/7/2015
Thanks for collecting and posting all of this information.
There are already tweets blaming the blast on the ‘mistreatment’ of the uighurs. ‘Allah’s punishment’, etc.
Thank you for all the posts. After looking at the second posted video footage there appear to be 3 major centers of fire separated from one another, and running for what could be 4 to 7 blocks long or even more.
Mushroom cloud in the YouTube video.
