Bloomberg: Death Toll Rises to 112 From Tianjin Blasts, With 95 Missing
The death toll from Wednesday’s blasts at a chemical warehouse in China’s port city of Tianjin has risen to 112, while 95 people are still missing, Xinhua reported.
Among the missing are 85 firefighters, Xinhua said, citing local officials. A total of 46 people have been rescued from the site, the latest a man in his 50s found 50 meters (164 feet) away from a “burst point,” Xinhua reported. He suffered a respiratory tract burn and was in stable condition, the news agency cited Li Jingmei, a Tianjin doctor, as saying.
Saving lives will remain the top priority even beyond the 72-hour golden period for rescue, Minister of Public Security Guo Shengkun said, according to Xinhua.
Earlier Saturday people were evacuated from a 2-mile zone around the industrial site on contamination fears as the investigators try to confirm media reports that chemicals stored in the warehouse may include as much as 700 tonnes of sodium cyanide. China sent a team of nuclear and biochemical emergency military workers to the area east of Beijing to search for survivors, the Ministry of National Defense said.
Update: Rescuers work to clear China blast site of chemicals before rain falls (Reuters)
WNU Editor: This is a huge story in China right now. The Chinese central government is now at risk of something that it cannot afford to risk right now .... its credibility.
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EPA, OSHA etc. That is what China is going to get.
Let's hope they don't go overboard like they do in the U.S.
When it comes to fire safety, I am told that the insurance company is more fear than any government agency. A government agency is or was somewhat limited whereas a insurance agency can walk though you whole business. If they don;t like it they walk and you have to find another insurer if you can.
I was one of those who was accused of going overboard. So, when we were called off our duties and the regulated became our customers, we did little to nothing to protect human health and welfare. People who think like you won. Of course, when a facility exploded in the middle of the night, your food became dangerous, your medicines contaminated, or your water undrinkable we were then accused of not doing our jobs. So, the level of risk goes up and losses mount. Thank goodness technical professionals are held on a tight leash. We will wait for your call when you get in trouble and, perhaps, we will be able to reach you with trained and experienced people. Otherwise, best of luck. Call your insurance agent.
Insurance companies are on the hook if there is a fire. So they will want to inspect.
After we saw what happened with Louis Lerner, there has to be a leash on at least some agency workers.
The government is always good right? that is why the inJustice Department won't release a trace of the guns used at Gardner by the Jihadis. they may be form the gunwalking fiasco of Eric Holders. Holder and Obama still have not cleaned up their Gun walking mess.
The EPA is regulating CO2. and polluting rivers. NASA is for Muslim outreach and not space exploration. It is also for climate scare. Temperature data is being massaged as we speak. If the trend did not scare them the 1st time massage the data again. Rinse Repeat. So the 1930s gets cooler and the 1990s are fudged up. All in a day's work. Snow was suppose to be memory 15 years ago. Guess the messed that prediction up. so they are back to predicting 100 years out. That is that crap that politicians do when they promise to balance the budget in the out years.
My initial comment was that China was going to get their version of OSHA or EPA if they do not already have one. If they already have one it was going to get more teeth. The second part of my comment was that I hope they don't go overboard. Regulating CO2 really?
I am sorry to say that you appear to have no professional understanding of safety standards, inspections, and enforcement actions. You obviously are not trained in hard science or safety.
When government safety standards are not observed, things go boom, people die or are horribly hurt, and immense wealth can be lost. Rejecting science fact by mixing in politics is inappropriate. A lot of people work very hard to protect you from things you do not even know exist. They deserve better than a screed.
"When government safety standards are not observed"
There are a lot of professional societies out there.
In fact professional standards are superseding military ones.
I have filed OSHA reports. So I am aware of the reporting standards, terminology etc.
Just one question. Who is polluting america's rivers this week?
Please get some help.
85 firefighters missing and they reported 112 dead ??? WTF ?!? Smell like a cover up.....most probable number is 5 time higher.
214 firemen ,military specialists were there 14 got out alive the death is cover up casualties are big 1200 is rumoured but even thats low this was mini nuke attack the crator was 400 metres wide ,8 metres deep you dont get that from chemical explosion almost every building in vincity is gone
WNU- i would love to here your opnion on what caused the explosion
Not beating up on Aizino here, just that I think healthy regulations are... Healthy. I'm an electrician and I see the SCARIEST stuff out there. I have no tolerance for people who say things like "it's my house, I don't need an electrical inspector looking over my shoulder." Yeah, actually you do because you won't live there forever and it could be a kid who pays the price down the road. without oversight people do stupid dangerous things. The same applies to everything. If you know someone is looking for you to screw up you will be more careful. I don't have much faith in the average person to always do the right things unless they have someone there to catch them if they screw up. Not everybody is inherently responsible.
Ropestuff,
I worked in Safety. One of my coworkers describe how they would route OSHA to a work area they wanted to inspect via the outside of the building and then by the shortest route through the interior.
I never saw a OSHA inspector. I did file the reports. I know all the metrics. The bad metrics, where I worked went down. Who I really dislike when it comes to safety is purchasing more than OSHA. It is a pecking order thing and it made it really hard to do my job after the fact.
I stand by my comments of the EPA.
Talking about inspections, there was this rental that I had a personal although not financial stake in. More gut feel was that the 3 story back porch was put up without a permit. Besides being dilapidated, and trashed, and unsecure to burglars, I think it was not properly tied into the structure. I might be more aware of things like that from watching Holmes Inspection.
I have some mixed feelings about OSHA. Thank god I've never been fined but I sure have seen them be heavy handed with some people. A big company has a chance but they can shut a little guy in one visit. Who actually checks their extension cords 4 times a year and applies the proper color coded tape? I imagine OSHA could destroy every small contractor in my town in one day of inspections. That said, They do save lives. When I was an apprentice I wired 3 story condos for a while and one day the condo adjacent to the one I was working on had just had its roof sheated. Those f-Ing guys were throwing full sheets of unused OSB off that3 story roof. Flipped those sheets off the roof like they were tossing cards. Good god. OSHA put a stop to that.
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