Posted on 09/16/2022 1:09:43 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Dozens of storeys of the more than 656-foot China Telecom (0728.HK) building “burned with great intensity,” sending thick smoke into the sky, state broadcaster CCTV said.
The fire has been put out, but casualty numbers are not known yet, it reported.
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But at least there’s no covid in it.
That building was made out of recycled pelletized plastic soda bottles soaked in kerosene. PooF!!
Horrible. I hope people got out in time.
Looks like the exterior panels were!
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.
At least the potted plants give a nice touch to the “green” construction——
That building ain’t going green.
You’re right. That looks like some type of polymer burning. Concrete and rock wool insulation certainly don’t burn and that’s way too much smoke just for paper and office furniture.
The back side of the building doesn’t look so burnt so hopefully people could get out.
That would be a horrible death inhaling all that smoke with no escape.
I’ll bet the pencil pushers are still celebrating over all the money they saved by not putting in that wasteful fire sprinkler system. Need chicom translation for “great idea.” Yu ching yus?
That corner of the building from bottom to top makes my think
it may have house fuel lines, top to bottom, for the structure.
My heart goes out to any people trapped there. It is more likely they would survive the flames than the fumes.
Did the flames melt the steel beams? If not how come?
[Did the flames melt the steel beams? If not how come?]
https://apjjf.org/-Melody-Kemp/3332/article.html
Dunno. Years ago a highrise in LA had a fire which LAFD said came close to melting the frMe collapsing the building.
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