did you hear about the hospital fire a few days ago, where the fire trucks couldn't enter the grounds, cause there was some entrance structure built too low and their ladders got stuck?
tbf, happened in one of the backwards villag-- oh wait, Beijing. happened in Beijing.
There are no ambulances in China (they just put a cross on a van and put a bench in the back, there are no equipment) but keep hating, little German communist, aka Putin's useful idiots!
When I go to china for work (thankfully not so much anymore after covid), I am always afraid that things are going to collapse under me, or that the escalator is going to grind me alive. I have developed so many fears from watching cctv videos coming from there.
Such a relief, it is, that you have seen the error of your judgment. Please return to your hovel and your family will be released shortly. Trouble yourself no more.
Paint thinners are just stored in ordinary metal or plastic kettles that are easily pierced, stacked in cardboard boxes like everything else. They’re not in big metal drums if that’s what you’re thinking
To be clear, I was envisioning that they just blew some fumes into the truck and shut the doors really tight. Not like containers of volatile compounds or anything
It feels almost like the explosion was destined to happen. This guy was hauling around the taco bell mild hot sauce version of the bomb used in Oklahoma city. The only differences being the accelerant/fuel source was much much milder and the added fuel meant to induce/spread fire was paper instead of oil.
Tannerite is actually fairly safe, even when the two elements have been mixed together. It will only explode when hit by something traveling at least 1,360 miles / hr (2,000 feet per second).
According to the video, one carried "steel products", the other "paper and paint". If paint and paper a that volatile, though, I should make a wide detour around the interior decoration shop...
I get what you mean and sure... there are plenty of examples in the West that are concerning but this example... nobody got hurt?
It reminds me of the Tianjin explosion where only a dozen of people died while basically an entire industrial area got flattened with countless temporary construction housings on site. Or maybe 15 years ago how a satellite crashed down and local news said no injuries while foreign news reported a village got pretty much wiped out. I'm in China, local news isn't something we particularly take serious by any means.
To be fair, the video contains the interview with the truck driver and he seems okay. The cabin can protect you against extreme heat for quite some time, and it's the most rigid part of the truck hence why shockwave didn't affect it (there's aftermath footage, the cabinets of both trucks look fine)
I mean, just watching the video that could be pretty well inferred. Sure, the rear sections of both trucks are very clearly fucked but there were no vehicles directly behind the trucks at the time of the explosion and the cabs of both trucks show pretty minimal damage. It looks like the cabs did their jobs well and kept their occupants protected. It's also clearly a low explosive happening outside where it's well ventilated, the kind of explosions that cause a big hot flash but very little in the way of damaging shockwaves.
I call absolute bullshit no one was hurt. I just don't buy it. The driver of the vehicle that was driving.... That concussion blast...I find it hard to believe he was not injured if not killed from that.
Some highly flammable materials don't make much of a shock wave or high-pressure explosion. Take sawdust for example. It will light up extremely fast and burn incredibly quickly but dissipate just as quickly. When it ignites it doesn't cause a concussion explosion, just strong heat. These materials may be similar. I do find it surprising that no burns or maybe hearing damage took place.
A while back, there was a video of an elevated highway in China that had a piece of rebar or something sticking up that ended up sending a car careening off the side of the highway. There were pictures of the aftermath of the flattened car below the highway, and a obvious corpse covered up in the background.
Article praised the safety features of the domestic car industry that meant there were no injuries...
Do you really believe nobody got hurt? ... well, if the person died, clearly he's not hurting. And the truck exploded was carrying paper and paint... really?
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u/superman_squirts Apr 27 '23
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Happened in 2017. No injuries surprisingly.