I follow Napoleon’s dictum of “Never ascribe to malice that which can be satisfactorily explained by incompetence”
Not saying the Chinese didn’t screw up in their response, only that I really doubt nearly any city in the world would have done much better. My pity and prayers are with the poor working stiffs and I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the emergency response people risked or lost their lives trying to save their fellow humans.
In short, should some such thing happen in LA or Houston I think we’d appreciate prayers, too..
Published on Aug 14, 2015 At 22:50 on August 12, Tianjin Binhai. The first fire started at the PSA Ruihai logistics of hazardous chemicals. After the explosion fireball erupted while secondary explosions triggered surrounding enterprises. All the glass of the buildings have broken within two kilometers , and felt strongly within ten kilometers.Seven or eight fire trucks were destroyed on the ground, on the nearest place from the explosion area
About 100 meters far from the explosion point traffic police detachment
Less than 400 meters distance south of the scene of the explosion, four or five football field-sized parking lot about, thousands of parked cars new cars were burned.
About 600 meters away from the west side of the explosion, the light rail line on the 9th East Road Station, part of the rail damage. Many nearby administrative office buildings, commercial buildings, office buildings and other Standard Chartered Bank is a glass staircase damaged. The same is the 9th line, from the explosion point approximately 1.7 kilometers southwest of the Convention Center station, about 4.4 km Citizen Plaza Station also damaged.
Near the site of the incident on the west side of the highway for some seaside equally affected, pavement at the fracture, dent, and rubble and broken glass everywhere. Residential building damage is quite serious.
About 600 meters south of the explosion site Vanke Harbour Building 1,2. Elevator, gas and water supply have been cut off.
About 800 meters south of the site of the explosion has located the sail Garden District.
In addition, the neighborhood that is damaged within two kilometers. Hopson Jun Bay, Tianbin apartment, Golden Mile Island, Investor apartments, Wantong Metro International, regal apartments. About three kilometers southwest of the site Customs House, all the doors and windows smash, severely deformed walls, ceilings falling. The shock wave shattered glass line the walls.
About 3 km from the explosion site TEDA hospital, a dozen of glass was shattered ward building block airflow, collapse.
About 3 km from the explosion site TEDA College of Nankai University, some glass doors and windows damaged in the school.