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Tianjin explosions: police order mass evacuations amid further blasts
The Guardian ^ | 15 August 2015 | Fergus Ryan

Posted on 08/14/2015 10:58:06 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Tianjin blasts: police order mass evacuations amid further explosions

Everyone within three kilometres of blast site in China urged to get out as death toll rises to 85 and firefighters battle blazes for a third day

Fergus Ryan in Tianjin

Saturday 15 August 2015 06.29 BST

Armed police are evacuating everyone within 3km of the Tianjin blast site as seven to eight explosions raised fears of yet more casualties on Saturday, Beijing News has reported.

Hundreds of evacuees housed at a temporary shelter in a nearby primary school for the homeless were also being moved away, Beijing News reported.

Fires broke out at 11.40am on Saturday at the Tianjin blast site according to state media outlet Xinhua. Thick smoke and seven to eight blasts from at least three separate locations were reported to have been heard at the scene.

At 11am police saying they were acting on “orders from higher authorities” began instructing people within 2km of the epicentre to be promptly evacuated, said the Beijing News. “No people or vehicle allowed within the area” the police officer reportedly said.

According to the same report, a member of the People’s Armed Police told the Beijing News reporter that sodium cyanide had been discovered in the warehouse contents. Experts are now handling the chemical while the evacuation continues.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; cyanide; sodiumcyanide; tianjin
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To: wtd
I suspect that they didn't really know what chemical is stored where and how much.

They were probably all stored in a haphazard manner. Firefighters may have been flying blind.

21 posted on 08/15/2015 7:21:46 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
death toll rises to 85

Looking at the pictures of the wide area of devastation I would guess it is going to get much higher - even if it is just off shift workers and security guards. The first known deaths are probably the firefighters.

22 posted on 08/15/2015 7:26:47 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
The chaotic scenes followed a rare glimmer of hope on Friday when Chinese rescue teams located the 19-year-old firefighter Zhou Ti at the site of the blast more than 30 hours after it occurred. Reports emerged on Saturday that he was only 20 metres away from the epicentre of the explosion when he was found alive.

I remember reading about NVA in I Corps in RVN that were found wandering around after somehow surviving the concussive force of an Arclight strike. Deaf, naked, bleeding out the orifices and crazy. Wonder what kind of shape he's in.

23 posted on 08/15/2015 7:28:14 AM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: Riley
I suspect that this is the guy:


24 posted on 08/15/2015 7:33:50 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Yep- I just Googled him. Burns and lung damage. I have no idea how he survived the overpressure at all.


25 posted on 08/15/2015 7:37:23 AM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: Riley
The death toll has now risen to 104

Tianjin, China, Explosion Area Evacuated as Death Toll Rises to At Least 104

26 posted on 08/15/2015 7:44:23 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: PAR35
The libertarians would love to be able to operate like the Chinese.

No, you are confusing the crony capitalism and corrupt government/business relationships of the liberal left with libertarian ideas.

But that's not surprising, you are continuing the long tradition of attacking people who want more personal responsibility, less government, and a return to the principles of the Constitution.

27 posted on 08/15/2015 8:22:42 AM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: TigerLikesRooster

KERRY: (to Hassan Rouhani) “Sorry buddy, that shipment of nuclear components from China didn’t work out, we’ll try North Korea”


28 posted on 08/15/2015 8:36:08 AM PDT by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
regulations???


29 posted on 08/15/2015 8:43:39 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: RightGeek

Our condolences to the families of the deceased firefighters. They are the bravest of the brave, just as those at the Fukeshima Reactor disaster were, and our own at 9/11.


30 posted on 08/16/2015 1:31:17 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I bet way more than 85 dead.


31 posted on 08/16/2015 7:04:17 AM PDT by matt04
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To: matt04

Now the death toll stands at 112.


32 posted on 08/16/2015 7:13:47 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

DEVALUE YOUR CURRENCY AGAIN AND IT WILL BE 10X WORSE !!!


33 posted on 08/17/2015 4:21:57 PM PDT by TomasUSMC (FIGHT LIKE WW2, WIN LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.)
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